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Sèvres Coffee Pot and Cover
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Print Details
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Request Details
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Dates
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Circa 1763
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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France
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Description
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A very rare Sèvres coffee pot and cover painted with a freize riche decoration. Contemporary and high-quality gilt metal mounts with a thumb piece.
Date letter K for 1763.
Painter’s mark for Antoine-Louis Fontelliau (active 1753-1782).
This rare model has a simple looped handle and is shown in drawings in the factory archives. A very similar model is also illustrated by David Peters as part of a small dejeuner. This is decorated with a comparable frieze riche decoration, by Thévenet (1763–4). This rare shape, often erroneously described as a hot milk jug and cover, has been convincingly attributed as a coffee pot by David Peters in his article on Sevres Coffee Pots in FPS Journal Vol. III. It has no name in the factory records. However, the same model with a side handle is recorded as a cafatière à manche, having a turned wooden or ivory handle.
In silver, this shape is known as a marabou, and this name was later adopted for the shape in hard paste porcelain models at the Sèvres factory.
13.5cm High
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Literature
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David Peters Early Sèvres Coffee Pots, The French Porcelain Society Journal, Volume III, (2007) p.p.100-110. Figs. 17b & 18.
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