Two Louis XV silver marabout coffee pots, Paris, 1758 and 1767

spiral fluted with cartouches under the spout, the 1758 pot with no visible maker, the 1762 pot by Jacques-Pierre Marteau.  Together with two plain Louis XVI Hot Milk Pots, François Delapierre and Julien Boulogne-Petit, Paris, 1778 and 1787; 4 pieces.

engraving removed from shield on front of taller pot, old repairs around base rim; smaller creamer with dings
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Another marabout by Marteau is in the Wentworth Collection of the Metropolitan Museum, see Dennis No. 241, p. 167.