Chocolate Pot, 1760-1790
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Colonial Americans consumed chocolate as a beverage. Drinkers combined the ground cacao beans -- imported from the West Indies -- with sugar, vanilla, and water and served the hot beverage in distinctly-shaped chocolate pots, like this late 1700s example. The lighthouse shaped form derived from Chinese export tea and coffee pots and the surface decoration from fashionable rococo designs.
Colonial Americans consumed chocolate as a beverage. Drinkers combined the ground cacao beans -- imported from the West Indies -- with sugar, vanilla, and water and served the hot beverage in distinctly-shaped chocolate pots, like this late 1700s example. The lighthouse shaped form derived from Chinese export tea and coffee pots and the surface decoration from fashionable rococo designs.
Artifact
Chocolate pot
Date Made
1760-1790
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
66.146.2
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Ceramic (Material)
Color
Reddish brown
Dimensions
Height: 7.25 in
Width: 4.125 in
Length: 7.5 in
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