Hot milk pot, ca. 1765–70, German, Bautzen (Saxony), Silver, beechwood, Overall: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm), Metalwork-Silver, This coffeepot and its mate bear the maker's mark EGB, which recent research identifies as belonging to the goldsmith Ernst Gottlob Borns of Bautzen, a city east of Dresden in Saxony. For both pots Borns took the standard eighteenth-century waisted-barrel body form and enlivened it with a playful variety of surface modeling that emphasizes both the malleability and light-reflective qualities of the silver
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Hot milk pot, ca, 1765–70, German, Bautzen, Saxony, Silver, beechwood, Overall, 6 1/4, 15.9 cm, Metalwork-Silver, coffeepot, mate bear, maker, mark EGB, recent research, identifies, belonging, goldsmith Ernst, Gottlob, Borns, city east, Dresden, pots Borns, standard eighteenth-century, waisted-barrel, body, form, enlivened, playful variety, surface modeling, emphasizes, malleability, light-reflective qualities, silver
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