Lot Essay
Silver and Ceramics for Exotic Beverages: Wares for Punch, Chocolate, Coffee, and Tea 1686-1805, The Forty-First Washington Antiques Show, November 20-December 3, 1995
.jpg?w=1)
PROPERTY FROM THE HAHN FAMILY COLLECTION
A QUEEN ANNE SILVER CHOCOLATE POT
MARK OF WILLIAM LUKIN, LONDON, 1702
Details
A QUEEN ANNE SILVER CHOCOLATE POT
MARK OF WILLIAM LUKIN, LONDON, 1702
Tapering cylindrical on a molded foot, the scroll spout and wood loop handle with later cut-card decoration, the high-domed cover with removable hinge-pin on chain and scroll thumbpiece, the cover chased with flutes and surmounted by a hinged cap with baluster finial, one side engraved with a coat-of-arms within foliate scroll cartouche, marked on body and under cover, also with scratchweight under base 24=15
9 in. (32.5 cm.) high; gross weight 24 oz. 10 dwt. (770 gr.)
MARK OF WILLIAM LUKIN, LONDON, 1702
Tapering cylindrical on a molded foot, the scroll spout and wood loop handle with later cut-card decoration, the high-domed cover with removable hinge-pin on chain and scroll thumbpiece, the cover chased with flutes and surmounted by a hinged cap with baluster finial, one side engraved with a coat-of-arms within foliate scroll cartouche, marked on body and under cover, also with scratchweight under base 24=15
9 in. (32.5 cm.) high; gross weight 24 oz. 10 dwt. (770 gr.)
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 17 July 1969
with S.J. Shrubsole, New York, 1969
with S.J. Shrubsole, New York, 1969
Literature
Art at Auction, 1968-69, illus. p. 449.