Chocolate Pot

Artists

Description

Of tapering octagonal form on moulded foot, with panelled swan-neck spout with baluster drop at right angles to the wooden handle. Hinged, domed lid with baluster finial; the front engraved (possibly later) with a lozenge-of-arms within a foliate scroll and shell cartouche flanked by birds and husks, engraved under the base with initials S over IA.

Dimensions

26 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm (10 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.) 779 g

Provenance

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