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- Chocolate Pot, 1760-1790 - Colonial Americans consumed chocolate as a beverage. Drinkers combined the ground cacao beans -- imported from the West Indies -- with sugar, vanilla, and water and served the hot beverage in distinctly-shaped chocolate pots, like this late 1700s example. The lighthouse shaped form derived from Chinese export tea and coffee pots and the surface decoration from fashionable rococo designs.
- 1760-1790
- Collections - Artifact
Chocolate Pot, 1760-1790
Colonial Americans consumed chocolate as a beverage. Drinkers combined the ground cacao beans -- imported from the West Indies -- with sugar, vanilla, and water and served the hot beverage in distinctly-shaped chocolate pots, like this late 1700s example. The lighthouse shaped form derived from Chinese export tea and coffee pots and the surface decoration from fashionable rococo designs.