Chocolate pot
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Chocolate pot
- Manufactory: Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present)
- Date: ca. 1735–40
- Culture: German, Meissen
- Medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gilt bronze, wood
- Dimensions: Height: 6 in. (15.2 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
- Credit Line: The George B. McClellan Collection, Gift of Mrs. George B. McClellan, 1941
- Object Number: 42.205.136a, b
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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