Chocolate pot

Manufactory Meissen Manufactory German

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This form of porcelain chocolate pot, based on a silver model, was made at the Meissen factory in the mid-eighteenth century; most surviving examples can be dated 1735 to 1745. The far larger number of extant Meissen pots for coffee and tea from this period attests to the greater popularity of those drinks in Germany.

Chocolate pot, Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain, gilt bronze, wood, German, Meissen

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Chocolate pot, Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain, gilt bronze, wood, German, Meissen
Chocolate pot, Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain, gilt bronze, wood, German, Meissen

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