teapot and stand & teapot and stand with lamp

Samuel Wastell 1680 - 1730

Summary

Octagonal pear-shaped tea-pot with rim foot and mouldings round shoulder, mouth and cover-rim. Dome-shaped cover with turned wood finial-knob. Scroll wooden handle; curved duck-bill spout. Coat-of-arms engraved on lower part (for Languilles family). Octagonal moulded frame for stand on 4 scroll legs with octagonal moulded feet and wooden baluster handle. Octagonal lamp with mouldings and small domed cover.

Display Label

Silver teapot and stand with lamp 1711-12 Samuel Wastell circa 1680- 1730, London 18th century teapots were often made in silver because tea was an expensive luxury, so it was served with tableware made in luxurious materials – like silver. The teapot even has a solid silver spirit lamp to keep the tea hot. The teapot bears the coat of arms of the Languilles family who commissioned it from Samuel Wastell. He first registered his mark as a goldsmith in 1701. Mr and Mrs Assheton-Bennett bequest 1979.335