Coffeepot
Charles Le Roux
1725–35 · Silver · The American Wing
With its assertive linearity, tall tapering body, and high-domed lid, this vessel represents the earliest form of coffeepot made in colonial America. It and the accompanying square salver with an upcurved rim and bracket feet (1997.498.2) are rarities in American silver. Both are engraved with the arms of Assheton quartering Shepley, for Ralph Assheton (1695-1745/6) of Philadelphia. The coffeepot and salver remained together, in family hands, until 1989.
- Artist
- Charles Le Roux
- Date
- 1725–35
- Medium
- Silver
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Purchase, Friends of the American Wing Fund, Sansbury-Mills Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Goelet, Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Rubin, Wunsch Foundation, Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation, Louis and Virginia Clemente Foundation Inc., and Anonymous Gifts, 1997
