Lot Essay
The armorial on the above piece is that of Turner of Tablehurst, County Sussex, impaling Blois.
Details
A George II coffee pot
of plain tapering form and on a spreading foot, with a shell-chased and leaf-capped rising curved spout, polished wood double scroll handle and flattened domed hinged cover with baluster finial, one side engraved with a slightly later armorial within a rococo cartouche, Joseph Smith, London 1739 - 9in. (22.75cm.), 28oz. gross.
See Plate 9
of plain tapering form and on a spreading foot, with a shell-chased and leaf-capped rising curved spout, polished wood double scroll handle and flattened domed hinged cover with baluster finial, one side engraved with a slightly later armorial within a rococo cartouche, Joseph Smith, London 1739 - 9in. (22.75cm.), 28oz. gross.
See Plate 9