TWO PIECES OF FORM : -Coffee pot Ht: 26 cm. Gross weight : 602 g. -Coffee pot. Ht : 31 cm. Gross weight : 895 g Lids with acorn-shaped handles, bordered with pearled falls Handles in ebony (chip to one and restorations to the other). Moving sides ending in the head of a fantastic creature. The sides are decorated with a frieze of leaves and engraved with the arms of General Baron Bartier de Saint-Hilaire, wearing the Royal Order of the Two Sicilies, the Legion of Honor and the Iron Crown. Resting on three claw feet ending in acanthus leaves Goldsmith's hallmark of Jean Baptiste POTOT La grosserie 15 place de Thionville. Hallmarks of title 950 and medium guarantee Paris (1809-1819) A small blow to one. A.B.E. First Empire period

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