A scarce George I apple formed teapot
Auction: 13 August 2014 at 14:00 BST
£6,000
Description
James Mitchelson, Edinburgh 1722, of simple tapered apple form with flat lid with moulded hinge and acorn finial raised on a domed foot, with silver S scroll handle with wooden insulators and a tapered straight spout
Dimensions
11.5cm high, 18.6oz
Footnote
Provenance
Thomas Lumley, London 1958
Sotheby's New York, 23rd April 1993 lot 299
Exhibited;
Royal Ontario Museum, Canada
References;
Compendium Scottish silver, Volume 2, R & J Dietert, page 459