"Copper Coffee Pot, 18th Century Dinanderie"
Copper coffee pot from the 18th century, assembled in wolf teeth, ideal for decorating a cabaret table or a castle kitchen. Tripod-shaped piece skillfully worked, riveted and fretted. At that time, coffee occupied a place of choice in high society. Coffee was originally imported from the Ottoman Empire, but the French East India Company decided to remove the monopoly by growing "brown coffee" on Bourbon Island and importing it to mainland France.