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A traditional demitasse pot with its rosewood handle set at a right angle to the body, this is a compact coffee service form from Spratling's first design period, also made in a larger pot. It is recorded in Cederwall and Riney's Spratling Silver and in Phyllis Goddard's field guide.
The right-angle handle is a structural choice as much as a stylistic one, the rosewood set against the silver body in the material pairing that runs through Spratling's hollowware (Morrill, p. 224). The demitasse scale shows the workshop fitting its coffee-service vocabulary to a smaller, after-dinner use.
Made in more than one size, the design belongs to the coffee and tea hollowware that became a mainstay of the workshop and featured in the 1965 "World of William Spratling" exhibition (Morrill, p. 77).
Coffeepot, 1938-1945
Accession 1999.81.1. Official museum record Photo: Yale University Art Gallery.
Verified against each institution's own collection records. All museum collections
Museum of Mexican Silver. “Rosewood Handle Demitasse Pot.” Catalog no. MoMS-000084. https://museumofmexicansilver.com/pieces/spratling-175
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