Traditional Demi Tasse Pot with Rosewood Handle at Right

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).