Silver selfish coffee pot, the baluster body with engraved decoration of laurels and non-monogrammed coat of arms, the handle in console decorated with a frieze of laurels, it rests on a tripod base with sabots and leafy attachments. The cover underlined by nets, engraved with a crown of laurels and fretel in the shape of a pomegranate on a flowered branch. Paris 1784-1785 for the body, and the lid 1786-1787 Master-smith Claude-Isaac Bourgoin, received master in 1779. 176 g / H. 13 cm (A twisted foot)

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