A FINE QUEEN ANNE SILVER COFFEE POT

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A FINE QUEEN ANNE SILVER COFFEE POT
LONDON, 1705, MAKER'S MARK OF HUMPHREY PAYNE

Of tapering form on spreading circular foot and with applied molded mid-rib, with ebonized wood handle, the sockets and scroll spout issuing from applied cut-card calices, the spout terminating in a bird head, the hinged domed cover with mid-rib and scroll thumbpiece, surmounted by a baluster finial, engraved with a coat-of-arms within a foliate scroll and diaperwork cartouche, marked on body and cover--9 3/4in. (24.7cm.) high
(gross weight 28 oz. 8 dwt.)

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Winston F.C. Guest
Sotheby's, New York, June 17, 1981, lot 44

Lot Essay

An almost identical example, by the same, 1703, was in the collection of E. Assheton Benett (see Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition of Old Silver, exhibition catalogue, 1929, no. 437), and anther similar example by William Fawdery, 1704, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, (see J.F. Hayward, Huguenot Silver, 1959, pg. 52A, illustrated).