Coffeepot

Inscription: Scratched inventory number: 1638 24 or 1658 24

Marking: Struck inside cover, on each leg: [1] B, 2 pellets, a monkey above, in a vertical lozenge (maker's mark of Biennais); [2] Head of Apollo with 1, in an oval (unofficial quality mark for first standard silver, 1794–97); struck on neck, and on insetting rim of cover: [3] Cock, flanked by A and 1, in vertical octagon (Paris mark for first standard silver, 1798–1809); [4] Man's head, flanked by 8 and 5, inverted and reversed, in a circle (Paris medium excise mark, 1798–1809); struck on rim of lip [5] An ear (Paris medium census mark, 1809–19)

Princes Borghese (ca. 1803?–1892; sale, Palazzo Borghese, Rome, March 28– –April 9, 1892, no. 20; sold to Licata); Don Antonio Licata, Prince of Baucina (from 1892) ; Ercole Canessa , Naples, Italy (after 1892–before 1924) ; Edith Rockefeller McCormick , Chicago (by 1924–34; sale, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, New York, January 2–6, 1934, no. 698; sold to MMA)

Art Institute of Chicago. "Silver-gilt Table Service, presented by Napoleon I to his sister, Pauline Borghese," July 1, 1924–October 1, 1924.

London. Royal Academy of Arts. "The Age of Neo-classicism," September 9–November 19, 1972.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Arts Under Napoleon," April 6–July 30, 1978.

New York. Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture. "Vasemania: Neoclassical Form and Ornament in Europe," July 22, 2004–October 17, 2004.

Winterthur Museum & Country Estate. "Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner 1808–1842," July 5–September 21, 2007.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner 1808–1842," November 20, 2007–May 4, 2008.

Palm Beach. Society of the Four Arts. "Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner 1808–1842," November 21, 2008–January 11, 2009.