Edward Hunsdon
A William III Antique English Silver Miniature Coffee Pot, 1699
Height: 2.25 in.
Weight: 16 dwt.
London
V9742
$ 12,500.00
Provenance: S.J. Shrubsole, New York, May 1986 This is a miniature version of the earliest form of English coffee or teapot. Two full sized vessels of this shape are at...
Provenance:
S.J. Shrubsole, New York, May 1986
This is a miniature version of the earliest form of English coffee or teapot. Two full sized vessels of this shape are at the Victoria and Albert Museum, one described as a teapot in its presentation inscription to the committee of the East India Company, maker’s mark TL, London 1670, the other, maker’s mark GG, London, 1681 also from the East India Company. Both are illustrated in Charles Oman, English Silversmiths’ Work, Civil and Domestic, no. 66 and 74.
Edward Hunsdon was the son of Henry Hundstone of Edmonton, Middlesex. He was apprenticed to Thomas Tebb of the Joiners' Company 8 April 1673, and became free 6 February 1683. He mark was entered as a smallworker, with an address in Carey Lane, in an undated entry at the Goldsmiths Hall. This was probably done in early 1697, at the beginning of the new register of Britannia standard marks.
S.J. Shrubsole, New York, May 1986
This is a miniature version of the earliest form of English coffee or teapot. Two full sized vessels of this shape are at the Victoria and Albert Museum, one described as a teapot in its presentation inscription to the committee of the East India Company, maker’s mark TL, London 1670, the other, maker’s mark GG, London, 1681 also from the East India Company. Both are illustrated in Charles Oman, English Silversmiths’ Work, Civil and Domestic, no. 66 and 74.
Edward Hunsdon was the son of Henry Hundstone of Edmonton, Middlesex. He was apprenticed to Thomas Tebb of the Joiners' Company 8 April 1673, and became free 6 February 1683. He mark was entered as a smallworker, with an address in Carey Lane, in an undated entry at the Goldsmiths Hall. This was probably done in early 1697, at the beginning of the new register of Britannia standard marks.