A BELGIAN SILVER CHOCOLATE POT

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A BELGIAN SILVER CHOCOLATE POT
Mons 1746, maker's mark a crowned cypher, unidentified

Pear-shaped and on three reeded bracket feet, the body vertically fluted with wooden C-shaped handle, the similarly fluted raised cover with rising scroll thumbpiece and screw-on flower and spool finial, marked on base -- 30 cm (11¾ in) high
1,000 gr.

拍品专文

This piece bears the rare date letter & which has been used occasionally in Mons as it was in a few French cities, among others in neighbouring Dunkerque; when used, it would be inserted between the end of an alphabet (Z) and the beginning of the following one (A). According to Madame R. Stilmant (cf. L'Orfèvrerie en Hainaut, Anvers, 1985), it has been recorded on a piece dated 1719 which, in accordance with style, makes the chocolate pot 1746. This date-letter seems never to have been recorded before.