Bain-marie Coffeemakers In Earthenware, Maison Dagand, Patented

Rare complete set of 3 bain-marie coffee pots in enamelled polychrome earthenware and copper. Beautiful painted decor of musicians putti. The handles are in the form of sirens.
The "pitchers", made of faience with spout, are provided with a handle and a copper lid fixed by two circles of the same metal. The cylindrical lower part fits into a large container which was filled with hot water.

The coffee pots are marked "DAGAND / BREVETE / SGDG / DELARUELLE SUCr."
An advertisement published in the Didot Bottin (see photographs) shows the same model by Maison Dagand, manufacturer of coffee makers, located rue Montorgueil in Paris. Provider of the Hotel des Invalides, the Hotel du Louvre, the School of Saint-Cyr ... and rewarded many times during the Universal Expositions of Paris in 1867, Philadelphia in 1876 and Vienna in 1873.

An Apparatus of the same model was then visible in the shops of the Bon Marché and was famous because "guaranteed against fire breaks, avoiding any cleaning, inapreciable advantage for the cleanliness of counters".

Some chips and lacks.