Coffee Pot, Sterling Silver, Casimir Savary, Douai (france), 1789

- Coffee maker
- Hammered, melted and chiseled silver, turned ebony handle
- Attr. Casimir Savary, master goldsmith from 1772 to 1789
- Douai, 1789
- Dimensions: 31 cm high; Weight (net): 1301g
- Excellent condition, very fresh carving

- Silver coffee pot, decorated with twisted ribs in alternating ogee flats. As an extension of the body, the decoration of the lid continues a swirling movement. The lid terrace is a swirling rose of acanthus on an amati background, taking the shape of a blooming flower in acanthus leaves with erect pistils. The attached beak is open like a duck's beak, with a laurel festoon bearing a shield held by a knot. The feet are in winding lined with a shell, the attachment in molded cartridge in braces decorated with a shredded shell. The twisted rib sleeve holds the turned ebony handle.

- Some jugs of this type are known to us particularly by this blooming flower made of acanthus leaves with erect pistils and these marquerite foot attachments which we find on a jug from 1778 by Casimir Savary [NC n°175 p. 321] or even from this goldsmith a jug from 1780 with the same attachments and grip. Of the jugs known in Douai, it seems that only Casimir Savary produced jugs with twisted ribs like the goldsmiths Baudoux and Leroux in Lille [NC p.178].

- Hallmarks (under the jug, inside the feet): hallmark of the common house: Gothic “D” with laurels surmounted by a closed crown with date 89 [NC, p.149]; master goldsmith (under the jug, trace in the chiseled rosette)
- Ref. : Cartier, Nicole (NC): “Les orfèvres de Douai”, Cahiers du Patrimoine, 1995