Of urn form on stepped square base with wood insert and four ball feet, loop handles rising from foliate attachments, the tall cover with removable finial, the cast spigot with ivory handle, internal cylinder for heating rod, engraved with bands of bright-cut engraving, the front centered with the script cypher of Queen Charlotte below a Royal crown in a cartouche, the back with script initials within a similar cartouche, the base engraved ”Presented to Julie de Montmollin by Queen Charlotte”.

Mlle. Julie de Montmollin instructed Queen Charlotte’s youngest daughters Sophia, Amelia and Mary in needlework and French. They became quite adept at lacemaking, crochet work and all kinds of fine embroidery. However, the rest of their education was apparently quite skimpy, and they had little knowledge of history, geography, handwriting or the arts.

Provenance: The Lipton Tea Company, Hoboken, NJ, since the early 1950s

Exhibitions:
- The Lipton Collection, The Portland Museum of Art, Feb-March, 1954, no. 74 (illustrated)
- An Exhibition of the Lipton Collection of Antique English Silver, Henry Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, CA, Jan-Feb. 1956, no. 43, p. 21 (not illustrated)
- The Lipton Collection: Antique English Silver Designed for the Serving of Tea, The Dayton Art Institute, Oct. 1958, no 83 (illustrated)

This piece has been authorized for sale by the DEC (Identification number 29-17 issued 11-23-21) indicating that it and the the ivory incorporated in it has been accepted as an antique, and can be sold interstate and intrastate in New York.