Museum Collections

Wrought and cast silver presentation coffeepot with a bulbous, urn-shaped body with repoussé chased foliate and scroll cartouches around the Perry family crest, an anchor on fess below a hind's head, on one side of the body and the inscription, "Presented to Commodore/ Matthew Calbraith Perry/ by the Chamber of Commerce and/ Merchants of New York" in script on the other side; incurved neck with an egg and dart band applied around the rim and the shoulder; hinged, circular, domed lid surmounted by a cast foliate finial; cast, s-curve spout in the form of a grape vine with a notched lip; cast scroll handle in the form of a vine with a grape bunch grip applied to the rear of the body; body seated on a stepped pedestal with an egg and dart band around the joint and the footring; makers' marks stamped on the base.