A GEORGE II SILVER COFFEE POT

MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME II, LONDON, 1743

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A GEORGE II SILVER COFFEE POT
MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME II, LONDON, 1743
In the Continental taste, of baluster form, on three lion's-mask feet, the body with ogee fluting and scroll spout, domed cover with bud finial, the cover engraved with a crest, marked on body, under base and cover
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) high; 44 oz. (1,371 gr.) gross weight

Provenance

The Oakwood Collection, sold Christie's, London, 10 June 2008, lot 61
With Alastair Dickenson, London

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Lot Essay

A coffee pot of similar form by Willaume was sold Christie's, London, 12 July 1989, lot 179. Another of similar form, by Daniel Piers, was sold Christie's, London, 18 March 1970, lot 109, and is illustrated in M. Clayton, The Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, 1985, p. 148, no. 3.

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