George II coffee pot, 1738 (silver)

The Lequesne coffee-pot The spirally-fluted pear-shaped body on three shell and acanthus foliage and flower-capped scroll feet, cast and chased above each foot with panel depicting a putto at rest within a landscape, two clasping coffee bush branches, with matting above, finely cast and chased beneath the short shell-capped spout with a mask emerging from coffee bush branches and flowers and with scrolls and rosette trellis, with two bird’s head and scroll cartouches, one engraved with a coat-of-arms within engraved foliate scrolls and rocaille, the hinged waisted cover chased with panels of flowers on a matted ground, separated by applied panelled scrolls and acathus foliage, the flammiform finial cast and chased with three shells above chased scrolls, the carved wood handle set asymmetrically to the body and with a lion-mask upper terminal and a foliage cast lower terminal, marked underneath and on cover bezel highgross weight 34 oz. 12 dwt. (1,075 gr.)