Papus & Dautun Swiss silver coffee pot

of plain baluster form with wood handle and hinged cover,

Exh. Cat. Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, 2011, no. 157B

Elie Papus was born in 1713 in Perigord, France.  He married Marguerite Servier on 18 February 1755 and was registered as a goldsmith and citizen of Lausanne in the same year.  Five years later, the goldsmith Pierre-Henri Dautun married Marie, the sister of Elie Papus’s wife.  A short time later, the brothers decided to work together and continued to do so until Papus died in 1793.