A GEORGE I SILVER COFFEE POT

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A GEORGE I SILVER COFFEE POT
MAKER'S MARK OF PENTECOST SYMONDS, EXETER, 1725

Tapering cylindrical on molded footrim, with panelled scroll spout and wood scroll side handle, the hinged high domed cover with baluster finial, engraved with a coat-of-arms within a fishscale and scroll cartouche, the base engraved ML over E*R, marked under base
9 7/8in. (25cm.) high
(gross weight 25oz. 10dwt., 804gr.)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Lavington impaling those of another

A similar coffee pot by the same, 1718, was sold from the collection of W.A.F. Burdett-Coutts, Sotheby's, New York, April 12, 1994, lot 307.