The teapot oval with straight sides, beaded rims, low domed cover, and C-shaped wood handle and knop, engraved with later coat-of-arms, both sides engraved with ribbon tied garlands, marked under base and inside cover, the stand marked under base and with scratch weight 12 " 13
5¼ in. (13.2 cm.) high, 18 oz. (560 gr.)

Acquired from Mrs. Beatrix Farrand, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1946.

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 406, no. 468 (illustrated).

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When Beatrix Farrand was disposing of her house in Bar Harbor in 1946, she permitted Peggy and me to select from among her belongs. This George III teapot and stand by Hester Bateman were among the few silver pieces we acquired from her. We use them a great deal at Hudson Pines. - David Rockefeller. (D. Fennimore et al., p. 406).

Beatrix Cadwalader Farrand (1872–1959) was an important early American landscape architect. She was one of eleven founding members, and the only woman, of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Her career included commissions to design many East coast society private residences, estates and country homes, as well as public parks, botanic gardens, college campuses, and the White House. A comparatively small number of her work survives, such as at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden on Mount Desert, Maine, and elements of the campuses of Princeton, Yale, and Occidental.

The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the The New York Botanical Garden, originally designed in 1916 by Mrs Farrand was completed according to her vision in 1988 through a generous gift from David Rockefeller.