A George II silver coffee pot

A George II silver coffee pot,

by Charles Frederick Kandler, London 1728,

ribbed and fluted baluster form, engraved with masks, strap work and trellis decoration and with a lion's head, leaf capped scroll handle, the spout with scroll motifs, the domed cover with an acorn finial, on a circular foot, engraved with a widow's lozenge, height 25cm, approx. weight 35.2oz.

Provenance: Sotheby's, New Bond Street, Fine Silver, 24th October 1985, lot 392.

The widow's arms are those Strode, originally of Parham, Dorset impaling Belton.