Duncan Urquhart and Naphtali Hart worked together as a genuinely unusual partnership in London silversmithing, a rare Jewish-owned firm active in the trade at a time when it was still fairly closed to outsiders. This mustard pot dates from 1809, the baluster body raised on ball feet with a ribbed girdle and gadrooned border, gold-washed inside to protect against mustard's corrosive effect on plain silver, a treatment we've seen elsewhere in this catalogue for exactly the same reason.
Two vacant cartouches sit on the body, left blank so the piece can be personalised, and the pot retains its original Bristol blue glass liner, a material choice that turns up often in English silverware precisely because the deep blue glass hides any discolouration inside far better than clear glass would. The spoon that accompanies it is a later addition, fiddle-shaped with a lightly gilded bowl, made by Henry Holland (of Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater) and hallmarked for London in 1872, so pot and spoon span over sixty years rather than being an originally matched set.
Condition notes
Good antique condition. Wear to gilt inside; there is slight gaping between the body of the pot and the base; small split to silver underneath the handle.
