Loysel's Patent Hydrostatic Percolator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1855-1875
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, chalice- or goblet-shaped urn on compressed-ball stem and stepped, domed pedestal base; flared and domed cover topped by cast, four-sided baluster knop. Two circular, leafy-scroll and bead handles with ivory insulators and acanthus leaf attachments. Spigot has slender, fluted balsuter arm and beaded bail handle with ivory grip. Urn is fitted with a fixed filter and central pipe at bottom; removable filter on hollow stem slides over this pipe and the hemispherical lid is placed on top as funnel. Clipped-corner rectangular plate mounted inside urn at back below rim has patent and maker information, as well as serial number and capacity. Underside of concave bottom of base stamped "27". Brown-stained silk mesh bag sewn to large ring stored inside urn. Removable filter stuck in place.
label: Description
content: Maker is Shaw & Fisher of Sheffield, England; 1830-1894. The firm specialized in Britannia and, later, electroplated wares. Edward Loysel de Santais is credited with inventing the first commercial espresso machine in 1843; he created a large-scale version for the Paris Exposition of 1855 which is said to have produced 2,000 (demitasse or espresso-sized) cups of coffee an hour. Numerous manufacturers produced Loysel's Patent.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Miss Elizabeth S. Stevens
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.311700
label: catalog number
content: 311700
label: accession number
content: 64443
objectType: label: Object Name
content: percolator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Britannia (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (mesh bag material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire (mesh bag frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (insulators, grip material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 6 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in; 40.64 cm x 17.145 cm x 15.875 cm