From the March 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In July 2013, Christie’s put up for sale what it described as ‘the most important silver coffee-pot ever to come to the market’. Estimated at £3.5m–£4.5m, the Lequesne Coffee Pot of 1738 was an early rococo masterpiece by Paul de Lamerie (1688–1751), regarded as one of the greatest silversmiths working in Britain in the 18th century.
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