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Chocolate Pot

Chocolate Pot

1739 - 1811

William Preist

British

Of baluster form, on cast spreading circular foot, with wooden scroll handle and swan-neck spout cast with scrolls and headed by a palmette; the hinged dome cover with removable cap with double-baluster finial; one side engraved with a coat of arms and crest within an asymmetrical foliate scroll and rocaille cartouche, the reverse engraved with the same crest above a rocaille and foliate spray.

Silver, fruitwood

George II (1727-1760)

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