A Swedish 18th Century Rococo silver coffee-pot, marks of Petter Eneroth, Stockholm 1775.

Petter Eneroth was born in 1741 in Uppsala and probably apprenticed at some Uppsala workshop, possibly with Carl Lemon, but little is known about his youth. Eventually he went on journeyman years abroad, whereupon in 1768 he started as a journeyman with Jonas Thomasson Ronander in Stockholm. Eneroth became master in Stockholm on January 28, 1772.
His masterpiece, a coffee pot, is considered one of the foremost silver objects ever created in Sweden in terms of both composition and execution. It was sold at Bukowskis for the first time in 1923, after which it ended up in the Hultmark collection and was sold again at Bukowskis in 2007, when the coffe pot was sold for 2.5 million SEK, and it is still today the most expensive silver coffee pot ever sold in our country. This masterpiece bears several similarities to the coffee pot in our Important Spring Sale now.
Eneroth became a very successful and wealthy silversmith and his workshop flourished. He had a relatively large workshop with a couple of journeymen, sometimes four and occasionally up to six apprentices. Around 1790, Eneroth's business was Sweden's second largest, and for a long time he was also one of the country's most skilled goldsmiths. His works can be found, among other, in the collections of the National Museum, the Nordic Museum, the Hallwyl Museum and others.
Eneroth worked throughout the 1770s in the Rococo style as in the exquisite current catalog issue. During the 1780s he switched to making silverware in Gustavian classicism according to the then prevailing fashion.