An 18th century Maltese silver coffee pot

An 18th century Maltese silver coffee pot,

maker's mark possibly MP, Pinto Period, circa 1740, also with a test scrape,

baluster form, embossed with shell scroll and trellis decoration, wooden scroll handle with fluted rosettes, the domed hinged cover with a cone finial and scroll thumb-piece, on a circular foot, height 22.2cm, approx. weight 14.6oz.

For similar examples see; Alaine Apap Bologna, The Silver of Malta, MAG publications, 1995, page 78, and Farrugia J., Antique Maltese Domestic Silver, Said International 1992, page 52.