Mechelen 1788, Solid Silver, Petrus Cornelius Hendrickx, Mechelen, Louis XVI Coffee Maker

Sumptuous and magnificent Louis XVI period coffee pot in solid silver with its original carved wooden handle. It is the work of the greatest and most famous master goldsmith from Mechelen in the second half of the eighteenth century: Pierre Corneille Hendrickx. He was the favorite goldsmith of the priests and prelates of Mechelen because dozens of these works are still preserved today in the treasuries of the churches and monasteries of the Mechelen region. But the barons of Meester were also good customers because the 1935 exhibition showed several soup tureens, vegetable dishes, sauce boats and coffee pots bearing their coats of arms. This soup tureen is quite representative of his production in the flamboyant Louis XVI style. The objects are large in size and decorated with portraits of antique figures, pearl garlands, draperies and fluting. It measures 36 cm in height, the maximum for an eighteenth-century Belgian coffee pot and weighs an unusual 1.4 kilos.