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A SILVER COFFEE POT AND WASTE BOWL
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN & ROBERT MONTEITH, BALTIMORE, CIRCA 1825
Each vase-shaped, on spreading circular foot with flowerhead rim, the coffeepot applied at the shoulder with foliate scroll band and at the rim with a band of similar flowerheads, the scroll spout terminating in a bird's-head, with foliate scroll handle, the hinged domed cover surmounted by a lion crest finial, the sugar bowl with similar applied foliate rim, each engraved with script monogram JMW , coat-of-arms, and the same lion crest, each marked--height of coffee pot 11 3/4in. (gross weight 59 oz. 10 dwt.) (2)
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN & ROBERT MONTEITH, BALTIMORE, CIRCA 1825
Each vase-shaped, on spreading circular foot with flowerhead rim, the coffeepot applied at the shoulder with foliate scroll band and at the rim with a band of similar flowerheads, the scroll spout terminating in a bird's-head, with foliate scroll handle, the hinged domed cover surmounted by a lion crest finial, the sugar bowl with similar applied foliate rim, each engraved with script monogram JMW , coat-of-arms, and the same lion crest, each marked--height of coffee pot 11 3/4in. (gross weight 59 oz. 10 dwt.) (2)
Provenance
By tradition, the engraved arms and figural crest are those of Witherell, and the initials JMW are those of John and Mary Bell Witherell of Baltimore.