Douai 1757, Large Coffee Pot, Maximilien J. Savary, Sterling Silver

Imposing quadripode coffee or chocolat pot with side handle in solid silver from the Louis XV period. This model of coffee pots or chocolate pots enjoyed a certain success in the middle of the eighteenth century in Douai because Madame Nicole Cartier listed a good dozen coffee pots and chocolate pots of the same type and from the same period as the one I am offering for sale here. They are all quadripode, which is typical, even common, for the goldsmithing of Douai and Valenciennes but extremely rare for all other production centers in France of the Ancien Régime. The rolling feet are attached to the body of the chocolate pot by large shells which are still very reminiscent of the French Regence style. Its body is formed by four straight sides, alternating with four curved sides with double straight ribs. The fretel of the lid is formed by a burst seed placed on a terrace of gadroons placed in rays. The blackened turned pearwood handle unscrews and is attached to the body by a sheath with straight ribs. The jug is abundantly punched on the spout, on the inside of the foot and on the bottom of the body. The jurande letter T is used for the year 1757. This beautiful object weighs no less than 1170 grams.