Coffee Pot
Artist
William Lukin I
(English, ca. 1699 - 1755)
Date1702
MediumSilver and wood
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 × 4 inches (23.5 × 10.16 cm)
Credit LineThe Folgers Coffee Silver Collection, Gift of The Procter & Gamble Company; Collected by Joseph S. Atha
Object numberF99-21/2
On View
On viewGallery Location
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DescriptionSilver coffee pot with wood side handle and plain cylindrical body; cut card work around the base of the spout and handle sockets. The pot stands on a moulded rim foot and the curved spout terminates in a cap with a hinge. On one side is engraved a coat-of-arms within a cartouche. The plain domed cover is surmounted with a turned finial and has a thumbpiece attached.Gallery LabelThe tall, tapered, cylindrical shape and high-domed lid of this coffee pot, the earliest in the collection, were popular in the late-17th and early-18th centuries. The undecorated body was formed from a sheet of silver seamed vertically at the handle. The flame-shaped decorations around the pot's handle and spout are an example of cut-card work, a technique in which forms are cut from sheet silver and applied to the body. Not only decorative, the cut-card work serves to reinforce the soldered joints.
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