A Large American Silver Coffee Pot, Daniel Christian Fueter, New York, 1754-69

Christie's, New York, June 21, 1995, lot 89

S.J. Shrubsole, New York, October 2016

Jeanne Sloane, Artistry and Enterprise: American Silver 1660-1790 - Survey of American Colonial silver held in the collection of Roy J. Zuckerberg, New York, Smallwood & Stewart, 2018, no. 89, p. 182-183

Daniel Christian Fueter (1720–1785) was a Swiss-born silversmith working in New York between 1754 and 1769. While in New York, Fueter developed a close relationship with Myer Myers, sharing designs, castings, and even clients. Myers scholar David Barquist suggests that Fueter has more of an impact on Myers than any of his other contemporaries in New York. When Myers invested in the Spruce Hill lead mine in Connecticut in 1765, he and his two partners hired Fueter, a metal refiner and assayer, to run the mine (David Barquist, Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York, 2001, pp. 40-41 and p. 46).

A very similar coffee pot by Myer Myers is illustrated in Barquist, Myer Myers, no. 20, pp. 101-103. This coffee pot demonstrates the collaborative relationship between Fueter and Myers; both pots share the double bellied form and the same castings for the spout and handle joins. Jeanne Sloane notes that "it is not known whether Fueter and Myers used a common supplier of castings or if they exchanged mold patterns." Another coffee pot by Fueter with the same castings for the spout, handle, and finial was sold Sotheby's, New York, January 20, 2012, lot 102.