marked CA, ABD, Continental import mark, of baluster form, heavily chased and embossed scroll and floral decoration throughout, the central Rococo shaped cartouche with armorials to one side and crest and motto to other, leaf clasped spout, the hinged lid with similar decoration and conical finial 29cm high, 31.9oz Heraldry: The Marital Arms of Blagrave and Blagrave Arms: (on the dexter) Or on a bend sable three legs in armour couped at the thigh and sans foot proper (for Blagrave) (on the sinister) Or on a bend sable three legs in armour couped at the thigh and sans foot proper (for Blagrave) Note: Only two other Aberdeen 18th century coffee pots are recorded, this being the only available to private collectors. There is another of similar form also by Coline Allan in Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum (see Silver, The Aberdeen Story page 73 and catalogue item 68) and a chased baluster example by James Wildgoose previously in the V.J. Cumming collection which now resides in Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery (see Finlay, Scottish Gold and Silverwork, plate 100). Why coffee pots should be so rare when compared to Aberdeen teapots is unclear but when looking at the wider survival ratio of Scottish coffee and teapots it is perhaps not surprising. Any form of 18th century Scottish coffee pot must be considered scarce. This perhaps suggests the spread and popularity of coffee was smaller and/or took longer to establish in Scotland making these not only rare survivals but ones commissioned by people at the front of fashionable trends in Scotland.
marked CA, ABD, Continental import mark, of baluster form, heavily chased and embossed scroll and floral decoration throughout, the central Rococo shaped cartouche with armorials to one side and crest and motto to other, leaf clasped spout, the hinged lid with similar decoration and conical finial 29cm high, 31.9oz Heraldry: The Marital Arms of Blagrave and Blagrave Arms: (on the dexter) Or on a bend sable three legs in armour couped at the thigh and sans foot proper (for Blagrave) (on the sinister) Or on a bend sable three legs in armour couped at the thigh and sans foot proper (for Blagrave) Note: Only two other Aberdeen 18th century coffee pots are recorded, this being the only available to private collectors. There is another of similar form also by Coline Allan in Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum (see Silver, The Aberdeen Story page 73 and catalogue item 68) and a chased baluster example by James Wildgoose previously in the V.J. Cumming collection which now resides in Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery (see Finlay, Scottish Gold and Silverwork, plate 100). Why coffee pots should be so rare when compared to Aberdeen teapots is unclear but when looking at the wider survival ratio of Scottish coffee and teapots it is perhaps not surprising. Any form of 18th century Scottish coffee pot must be considered scarce. This perhaps suggests the spread and popularity of coffee was smaller and/or took longer to establish in Scotland making these not only rare survivals but ones commissioned by people at the front of fashionable trends in Scotland.
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