Elegant Empire style silver coffee pot by silversmith Pampaloni with a swan-shaped handle

Description: Elegant coffee pot (cm. Ø12; h.27) handmade in 1940/1950 in solid 800 silver. Splendid and large Italian sugar bowl in solid 800 silver from the Florentine silversmith Franco Pampaloni, a company founded by Ermindo Pampaloni in 1902. Decorated in the Empire style with a hinged lid and an ebony wood handle applied inside the face of Aeolus, God of the winds (photo n°5). The spout of the coffee pot represents the head of a swan: feral legs adhering to the body by means of foliated decorations, a decoration around the body with the classic Empire leaves. The coffee pot bears 3 hallmarks: the oval with the 800 fineness, the silversmith's logo (the bust of a woman looking to the right) and, enclosed in a lozenge, the silversmith's number (n°176) and Fi, the province (Florence). Excellent state of preservation. 585 grams.