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Lot Essay
The arms are those of Montgomery quartering Eglington and impaling Edmonstone, as borne by James Montgomery of Rosemount (now Grey Abbey), Co. Down. In 1687 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath. James Montgomery sold Rosemount to a relative named William Montgomery for £6,200 in 1717, the year before he commissioned this fine teapot. (See B.G. de Montgomery, Origin and History of the Montgomerys, 1945.)
The date letter "a" in a shield has traditionally been given to the year 1717, but has been recently reattributed to 1719-20 by Ida Delamer and Conor O'Brien, in "Dublin Hallmarks: A Reappraisal of Date Letters used 1638-1756," The Silver Society Journal, Autumn 1999, p. 166.
The date letter "a" in a shield has traditionally been given to the year 1717, but has been recently reattributed to 1719-20 by Ida Delamer and Conor O'Brien, in "Dublin Hallmarks: A Reappraisal of Date Letters used 1638-1756," The Silver Society Journal, Autumn 1999, p. 166.