Coffeepot
Object Details
- Designer
- Jean Elysée Puiforcat, French, 1897–1945
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Globular body with flush-fitting domed cover. Raised square band encircles body at right angle to handle, with shape continued on cover. Triangular spout with lozenge-shaped opening. Tubular handle attached to body with walnut strut at top, and to shaped plinth that continues as base of teapot body. Shaped wooden finial. Cover with fitted flange closure.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund
- ca. 1928
- Accession Number
- 1982-21-2-a,b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- metalwork
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- coffeepot
- Type
- coffeepot
- Medium
- silver, walnut
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 12.4 × 10.7 × 16.5 cm (4 7/8 × 4 3/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
- made in
- Paris, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1982-21-2-a_b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4faf9d820-cbea-4c6f-a9ad-0d81595e95d0
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