COFFEEPOT

Creator(s): Demidov Copper Factory (Attributed to)

Currently in storage

About this object

Pear-shaped coffee pot has an applied handle with a fantastic animal at the top. The handle itself is covered with woven cane. The brownish-colored patinated copper is engraved on one side with a scene of a hunter with his spear after three boars. On the other side is a horse and the rider after a stag. Both scenes are framed with rococo scrolls. Two swags of flowers are on either side of the pot at the top. Swags of flowers also decorate the gilded and applied spout, which is beaded down the center. The separate lid is also engraved with two birds and flowers, all

Object name:

COFFEEPOT

Made from:

Copper -- silver gilt -- cane

Made in:

Russia

Date made:

ca. 1760

Size:

26.7 × 19.7 × 13 cm (10 1/2 × 7 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

19.7.1-2

Signature marks:

retail mark H. R. Thomas Bond St. on bottom stamped in Latin letters inventory mark? 1971 bottom in black ink

Credit line:

Gift of Mr. Giles Ellwood, 2005