A FINE QUEEN ANNE SILVER TEAPOT, STAND AND LAMP

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A FINE QUEEN ANNE SILVER TEAPOT, STAND AND LAMP
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN CHARTIER, LONDON, 1706

Elongated baluster octagonal, with stepped mid-band, the high domed hinged rectangular cover with canted corners and a similarly shaped finial, with scroll wood handle and facetted scroll spout, on a rectangular stand with canted corners raised on four scroll and pad feet, with removable lamp and wood baluster handle, engraved with a coat-of-arms within a foliate scroll and fishscale cartouche, the burner engraved with a crest, marked on side, base, cover, stand, lamp and lamp cover--7 1/2in. (19cm.) high
(gross weight 30oz., 941gr.) (2)

Lot Essay

John Chartier was presumably the son of Jean Chartier of Blois, who appears in the Reconnaissances of the French Church of the Savois on May 17, 1688. He was indenizened May 8, 1697 and became a freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1698. He was evidently one of the more prosperous of the Huguenot craftsmen working in London and, towards the end of his long working career, successfully adopted the rococo style (see lot 400 for a kettle by Chartier of 1735).