George III Old Sheffield plate large coffee pot, pear body, embossed scrolls and flowers

Exceptional George III Old Sheffield silver plate coffee pot with domed hinged lid over a pear shaped baluster body that is resting on a circular domed spreading foot. Splendid Rococo repoussage of flowers, scrolls and foliage. The swan neck spout is decorated with applied chased leaf design; the cover is embossed with a band of flowers and scrolls. The S-scroll handle has an applied floral thumb-piece and the lid finial is trimmed with a gadrooned border.

The coffeepot has two asymmetric cartouches that are enclosed in floral rocaille borders; both are vacant for personalised engraving.

Made in Sheffield, c 1770’s.

814 g
26 cm tall
22 cm from spout to handle
12 cm across the widest point

Great antique condition. Some copper bleeding commensurate with age; small ding to top of handle; soldering to top of handle.