Newcastle Coffee Pot, 1784

This is a most appealing Georgian silver coffee pot with a beautifully elegant, baluster-shape and engraved Classical style cartouche with floral festoon and ribbon to one side. It has excellent bead edge decoration to the hinged cover, pedestal foot and along the sides, underside and top edge of the cast spout. This English provincial coffee pot has an urn-shaped finial and retains its original fruit wood handle.

The coffee pot was made by Langlands and Robertson who were the most important Newcastle silversmiths of the latter part of the 18th century. The date letter is for 1784 and the pot must have been made prior to December of that year when the additional duty mark was introduced. The pot is in fine overall condition with a good solid weight.