Chocolate Pot

Artists

Description

Of baluster form, on cast spreading circular foot, with wooden scroll handle and swan-neck spout cast with scrolls and headed by a palmette; the hinged dome cover with removable cap with double-baluster finial; one side engraved with a coat of arms and crest within an asymmetrical foliate scroll and rocaille cartouche, the reverse engraved with the same crest above a rocaille and foliate spray.

Dimensions

25.4 × 20.3 × 11.4 cm (10 × 8 × 4 1/2 in.) 918 g

Provenance

Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.