1780 Coffee Pot
Stalker & Michison

Of pear-shaped form, resting on a convex flared baluster foot with 'dashed' grooving, and a fitted scrolled wooden handle. It has a hinged lid with finial with further grooving surrounding a band of embossed flower ornament, and a tall spout with grooved ornament terminating in auricular-type scrolling. The main body is embossed with rich rococo flower ornament on each side in an asymmetrical cartouche, one of the flowers looking suspiciously like drooping sun-flower. On the other side similar ornament encloses a rococo cartouche engraved with the initials 'I (or J E� in script. The base (clearly inserted, as is apparent from inside) bears four hallmarks (WS/IM. 'O', lion passant, leopard's head and three castles) for William Stalker and John Michinson, Newcastle, 1780/1, as well as the scratched marks hh/n/n (?) and FLB (/)/B.

1998.7/Sil.