Lot Essay
A group of three similar hot milk jugs, from the collection of The late Hilmar Reksten, were sold in these rooms, 22 May 1991, lots 103-105. A silver-gilt coffee service engraved with the arnms of King George II, with similar coffee jug and hot milk jug, is in the Untermyer Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in Y. Hackenbroch, English Silver and other Silver in the Untermyer Collection, New York, 1969, no. 139