Collection Highlights
Euphemia Toussaint (1815-1829)
ca. 1825
1920.6
Watercolor on ivory
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Chocolate or coffee pot
Object name
Chocolate or coffee pot
Date
ca. 1788
Medium
Porcelain
Dimensions
Overall: 8 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 8 in. ( 22.2 x 19 x 20.3 cm )
Description
Cylindrical porcelain chocolate or coffee pot; gilt pistol handle at 45 degrees from gilt S-curve spout; domed lid with peach sprig knop; gilt and black wave border and floral sprigs; enamelled wreath and eagle holding roundel of agricultural figure (emblem of the Society of the Cincinnati) appears twice above cipher of Samuel Shaw.
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Frances Jay, Mrs. Alexander Duer Harvey, Mrs. Lloyd Kirkham Garrison, and Mrs. Lawrence W. Fox, in memory of Mrs. Pierre Jay (nee Louisa Shaw Barlow) by her children
Object Number
1972.11a