Featuring a ribbed and fluted baluster form body, engraved with masks, strap work and trellis decoration and with a lion’s head, leaf capped scroll handle, the cast spout with scroll motifs, the domed cover with an acorn finial, on a circular cast foot, engraved with a widow’s lozenge. The widow’s arms are those of Strode, originally of Parnham, Dorset impaling Belton. Height : 25cm (10 inches).

Little is known about Charles Frederick Kandler; it is thought he was likely related to Johann Joachim Kandler the renowned Meissen modeller, of the same period. Charles Frederick Kandler is regarded as one of the five great silversmiths of the 18th century, along with : Paul de Lamerie, Peter Archambo, Pierre Platel and Paul Crespin. Charles Frederick Kandler’s first registered hallmark was alongside that of James Murray in August 1727, this Coffee Pot bearing the date letter for 1728, stamped with this unregistered hall mark of C.K with pellet below and a Mitre above means that this must rank amongst the earliest pieces ever produced by this Master Silversmith. As per Arthur G. Grimwade’s biographical dictionary for Charles Frederick Kandler; this mark is shared with the ‘remarkable kettle in the Victoria and Albert Museum’.

Approximate weight : 998 grams (35.2 ounces).

Provenance: Sotheby’s, New Bond Street, Fine Silver, 24 October 1985, lot 392.