Coffee Pot
Daniel Christian Fueter
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Object Label
VESSELS FOR FASHIONABLE BEVERAGES IN BRITISH AMERICA
As in Spanish America, the consumption of fashionable beverages—tea, coffee, and chocolate—became a fundamental part of socializing in the increasingly prosperous British American colonies. The serving of these exotic beverages required new furniture types such as the tea table (on view nearby), as well as artifacts made of silver or fine pottery such as teapots, coffeepots, chocolate pots, creamers, sugar bowls, flatware, and cups and saucers.
As in Spanish America, the consumption of fashionable beverages—tea, coffee, and chocolate—became a fundamental part of socializing in the increasingly prosperous British American colonies. The serving of these exotic beverages required new furniture types such as the tea table (on view nearby), as well as artifacts made of silver or fine pottery such as teapots, coffeepots, chocolate pots, creamers, sugar bowls, flatware, and cups and saucers.
Caption
Daniel Christian Fueter (Swiss, 1720–1785). Coffee Pot, ca. 1765. Silver, wood, 12 1/8 x 6 x 10 in. (30.8 x 15.2 x 25.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Samuel E. Haslett, 20.796. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Title
Coffee Pot
Date
ca. 1765
Geography
Place made: New York, New York, United States
Medium
Silver, wood
Classification
Dimensions
12 1/8 x 6 x 10 in. (30.8 x 15.2 x 25.4 cm)
Signatures
no signature
Inscriptions
no inscriptions
Markings
"D C F" [in oval] "N. YORK" [in irregular rectangle]
Credit Line
Bequest of Samuel E. Haslett
Accession Number
20.796
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