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A GEORGE III CHINOISERIE SILVER COFFEE POT
MAKER'S MARK OF THOMAS WHIPHAM & CHARLES WRIGHT, LONDON, 1766
Of baluster form on spreading base chased with trailing foliage, the body with scenes of a Chinaman and a Chinese noblewoman with exotic birds amid palm trees, foliage and scrolls, the scroll spout with conforming decoration, with ebonized wood scroll handle, and hinged domed cover chased with flowers and surmounted by the cast figure of a bucolic peasant, marked under base and on cover--11½in.(29.2cm.) high
(gross weight 35oz., 1084gr.)
MAKER'S MARK OF THOMAS WHIPHAM & CHARLES WRIGHT, LONDON, 1766
Of baluster form on spreading base chased with trailing foliage, the body with scenes of a Chinaman and a Chinese noblewoman with exotic birds amid palm trees, foliage and scrolls, the scroll spout with conforming decoration, with ebonized wood scroll handle, and hinged domed cover chased with flowers and surmounted by the cast figure of a bucolic peasant, marked under base and on cover--11½in.(29.2cm.) high
(gross weight 35oz., 1084gr.)