While closely related in form and design to silver made in London in the 1740s and 1750s, through the exuberance and individualized character of its decorations this coffeepot ranks among the most sophisticated examples of Rococo-inspired American silver from the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Its robust, single-bellied body recalls an earlier Baroque style, but its elaborate scroll and floral patterns are typical of the ornament produced by the London-trained chasers and engravers who were collaborating with master silversmiths in Philadelphia during the 1750s and 1760s. Because of the presence of these specially skilled artisans, this type of ornate silver decoration was more highly developed in Philadelphia than in any other colonial American city. One such craftsman was Laurence Hubert, a French Huguenot silver engraver, trained in London, who in 1748 arrived in the Philadelphia shop of Philip Syng, Jr., where this coffeepot was produced for the prominent lawyer Joseph Galloway. Its sophisticated design and abundant ornamentation attest to both the craftsman's ability and the wealth and confident taste of his patron. Jack L. Lindsey, from Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections (1995), p. 262.