Chocolate pot

Artists

Description

Of tapering cylindrical form on cast stepped base, with wood scroll side handle and tapering curved spout with hinged cap, the hinged high domed cover with cast corkscrew thumb-piece and stirrer aperture and removable cap with baluster finial; the side engraved with a lozenge of arms within a foliate scroll fish-scale and shell cartouche.

Dimensions

25.4 × 15.9 cm (10 × 6 1/4 in.) 770 g

Provenance

Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.