This painting deconstructs the rounded, cylindrical forms of an ordinary coffee pot into the Cubist language of flat, overlapping planes and wedges. It was one of the first times Davis used what he called "color-space logic"—placing colors in such a way as to suggest spatial relationships. The composition's diagonal lines and trapezoidal planes also enhance an illusion of three-dimensionality which turns this still life into an architectural setting.

Signature: Signed and dated (lower right): Stuart Davis '27

Moscow: Pushkin Museum, December 15 - February 15, 1978. Leningrad: Hermitage Museum, March 15 - May 15, 1978. Minsk: Palace of Art, June 15 - August 15, 1978. ¦Representations of America¦. (no exhibition catalogue printed)

San Juan, Puerto Rico: Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, April 19 - June 2, 1974. ¦Twentieth Century Art: U.S.A. from The Metropolitan Museum of Art¦. No. 14, p. 39 (ill.), p. 41 (discussed).

Newark, New Jersey: Newark Museum of Art, June 30 - September 4, 1972.

Austin, Texas: University Art Museum, The University of Texas, October 15 - December 17, 1972. ¦Not So Long Ago, Art of the 1920's in Europe and America¦. No. 32 (entry and illustrationn in black and white).

Indianapolis Museum of Art, October 25, 1970 - January 3, 1971. ¦Treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art¦. P. 55, no. 40 (ill. and catalogued).

New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1967-1968. ¦American Still-Life Painting 1913-1967, Selected by William H. Gerdts¦. No. 5, (ill., listed and mentioned in unpaged text).

Berlin, Germany: Amerika Haus, April 23 - May 21, 1966. ¦Stuart Davis, 1894-194, Gedachtnis-Ausstellung¦. No. 19 (listed as Percolator; erroneously dated 1928).

Paris, France: Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, February 1966. ¦Stuart Davis¦. No. 12 (ill., listed as Percolateur, erroneously dated 1928).

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1965. ¦Three Centuries of American Painting¦.

Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, April 26 - June 3, 1963.

Eighty-Seventh Annual Report in M.M.A. Bulletin, N.S., vol. XVI, 1957 (Oct.), p. 47 (ill. bottom).

Blesh, Rudi. Stuart Davis. New York [London], 1960, no. 19 (ill.), p. 50 (mentioned), p. 58 (notes), pl. F (color ill.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art. American Painting in the Twentieth Century, by Henry Geldzahler. 1965, p. 145 f (ill., discussed), p. 212 (short biography), p. 28 (bibliography).

Cosmil, Michel-Louis. Retrospective au Musee d'Art Moderne, in Information & Documents, no. 225, 1966 (March 1), p. 42 (ill. 56.95 as Percolateur; erroneously dated 1928).

William C. Agee, Irving Sandler, and Karen Wilkin. American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning and Their Circle, 1927-1942. Andover, MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 2012; p. 53, ill. in color p. 53 (fig. 8).