A PEWTER BRIGHT-CUT DECORATED CAST COFFEE POT

A PEWTER BRIGHT-CUT DECORATED CAST COFFEE POT

PROBABLY LONDON, MID-18TH CENTURY

no maker's mark but made of cast pewter soldered together and not typically of Britannia Metal, although the bright-cut decoration might at first sight appear like a Sheffield Britannia metal examples, the domed lid with a bold finial, decorated to the cover, spout, body, and foot, associated fruitwood handle

30cm high

Provenance

The Carl Ricketts Collection of Pewter.

Formerly in the Carl Jacobs, John F. Ruckman and 'Bud' Swain Collections.

Literature

For a closely related example in the David Lamb Collection see ‘Journal of the Pewter Society’, Autumn 1993, p,69. Illustrated on cover and fully described ‘Journal of the Pewter Society’, Autumn 2024.