A George II silver coffee pot, John Edwards, London, 1728
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
plain panelled octagonal form, the domed cover with banded baluster knopped finial, leaf-capped banded, spout, wooden scroll handle, the body engraved with the initials, Order of the Garter and coat-of-arms of George II, fully marked
26cm, 10¼in. high
1340gr., 43oz
Domcha Collection,
with S.J. Phillips, London, 2014.
C. Hartop; Geometry and the Silversmith; The Domcha Collection; Cambridge; 2008; no.53; pp.70-71
This coffee pot is illustrated on the front cover of Hartop, Geometry and the Silversmith (op. cit.), and was no doubt chosen for its exceptional gauge and quality and its particularly harmonious proportions. The octagonal form gained popularity in Britain in the first decades of the 18th century, usually without any sort of chased, engraved or added ornament, and perhaps originated as a reaction away from the elaborate cut-card decoration popular at the time.
