Megan Littlewood
Sale Coordinator
Lot 41
A mid-18th century Maltese silver coffee pot no maker's mark, stamped Pinto period (1741-1773), with four pellet mint mark and further unidentified oblong punch mark
3 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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A mid-18th century Maltese silver coffee pot
no maker's mark, stamped Pinto period (1741-1773), with four pellet mint mark and further unidentified oblong punch mark
Fluted baluster form, hinged fluted dome cover with a naturalistic flowering floral finial and scroll thumbpiece, short covered spout with scrolls and rocaille work, with wood handle with upper and lower disc junctions, raised on three elongated slender caprine legs terminating with hooves, height 25.8cm, weight total 23oz.
Fluted baluster form, hinged fluted dome cover with a naturalistic flowering floral finial and scroll thumbpiece, short covered spout with scrolls and rocaille work, with wood handle with upper and lower disc junctions, raised on three elongated slender caprine legs terminating with hooves, height 25.8cm, weight total 23oz.
Footnotes
Property of a private collector.
The marks on the present example would place it amongst a group of coffee pots which also are marked with the currently unidentified oblong punch. These appear in Bologna, Alaine Apap, The Silver of Malta, Lifa, Malta: MAG Publications, 1995, pages 78-84 as examples reference 165, 169, 178 and 191. Example 169 also bears the four-pellet mint mark, as the present example. The pots described here also stylistically share similarities with the present example. Examples 165 and 169 also lack makers marks.