December 2, 2012 - Gold Dust Anyone?

CaliforniaMama · 12-02-2012, 01:41 PM

This lovely coffee grinder, made of three gold colors, steel and ivory, is part of the exhibit Royal Treasures from the Louvre: Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette.

It normally lives at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, and we are fortunate that the exhibit has been allowed to travel out of France for the first time. It is currently on exhibit at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, California. I hope to be able to see it in person next month.

I haven’t seen dimensions of the grinder, but it looks to me like it is made to be held in one hand while the other does the grinding. I wonder who did the grinding? Marie-Antoinette, Louis XIV’s mistress, a servant?

I wonder how much coffee it ground? A cup? A pot? And just how much gold got ground in with the coffee? Not enough to poison anyone, apparently . . .

Legion of Honor

12-02-2012, 01:41 PM	#1
CaliforniaMama I wonder . . . Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The Left Coast, a pretty good place to be. Posts: 1,278	December 2, 2012 - Gold Dust Anyone? This lovely coffee grinder, made of three gold colors, steel and ivory, is part of the exhibit Royal Treasures from the Louvre: Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette. It normally lives at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, and we are fortunate that the exhibit has been allowed to travel out of France for the first time. It is currently on exhibit at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, California. I hope to be able to see it in person next month. I haven’t seen dimensions of the grinder, but it looks to me like it is made to be held in one hand while the other does the grinding. I wonder who did the grinding? Marie-Antoinette, Louis XIV’s mistress, a servant? I wonder how much coffee it ground? A cup? A pot? And just how much gold got ground in with the coffee? Not enough to poison anyone, apparently . . . Legion of Honor

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