Plain bellied body on spreading foot, scroll handle, engraved under banded spout with later coat-of-arms, marked under base
8⅞ in. (22.5 cm.) high; 34 oz. 2 dwt. (1,062 gr.)

Acquired from Walter H. Wilson Ltd., London, October 1951.

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 396, no. 448 (illustrated).

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When I was still living with my parents before my marriage to Peggy, I admired the George II silver jug they used regularly at meals. Accordingly, Peggy and I were delighted to find this one, which is very similar to theirs, at Walter Willson's when we were in London on one of our visits. - DR