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Teapot and Stand

Teapot and Stand

1764 - 1851

Henry Chawner

British

The teapot straight-sided oval with wooden loop handle and straight tapering spout, with hinged domed cover with oval wood finial, decorated with horizontal wriggle-work bands, engraved on one side with a coat of arms within a bright-cut shield-shaped cartouche and, on the other side, with a crest within a similar cartouche; the oval stand with conforming decoration, raised on four reeded splayed feet, the center engraved with the same crest.

Silver, fruitwood

George III (1760-1820)

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