Saint Uze Cafetière

A Saint-Uze cafetière, a French two-part drip coffee pot from the Drôme village that's been making pottery since the 16th century. The top section holds the coffee grounds over a perforated ceramic filter, and the boiling water poured in slowly above would drip down through the grounds into the pot below - the same drip method invented in France in 1800 and used in every Parisian kitchen for the next century. The cobalt floral sprigs running across both pieces are the pattern the village became known for, the Bleus de Saint-Uze, hand-printed onto cream earthenware. Sylvie sets it on the counter as it is, the filter in place and the lid on, the kind of thing that earns its shelf even on the mornings nobody makes coffee in it.