Tall and slender, the basic form of this pear-shaped coffeepot looks back to mid-eighteenth-century examples. However, its elongated proportions, high foot, and engraved decoration mark it as a product of the last few years of the century. Perhaps ordered by a customer with more traditional tastes, the coffeepot was made at virtually the same time that Revere was also making his more typical fluted teapots (see cat. no. 171).

This text has been adapted from "Silver of the Americas, 1600-2000," edited by Jeannine Falino and Gerald W.R. Ward, published in 2008 by the MFA. Complete references can be found in that publication.

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