Object Description
A very elegant antique sterling silver coffee pot of tall slender form with a shaped body on pedestal foot. Nicely turned wooden handle. The pot has bead borders, an acorn finial, and a hand engraved shell crest to the front.
Contains 1050ml.
Weight 870g, 27. troy oz.
Height 32.5cm. Spread 21.5cm.
Newcastle circa 1778.
Maker Langland & Robertson.
Sterling silver.
Marks. Stamped underneath with a full set of English silver marks. The date letter is too faint to make out however the silversmith partnership worked from 1778 – 1795. Maker’s mark double stamped.
Maker: John Langlands I/John Robertson I
John Langlands I & John Robertson I, Newcastle based silversmiths. Partnership was active 1778 to 1795
John Langlands, Newcastle based silversmith, patriarch of the Langlands family, who for sixty years were the largest silverplate producers in Newcastle. Apprenticed to Isaac Cookson, Langlands took over, in partnership with John Goodrick, the business of their ex-master when he died in 1754. John continued alone when Goodrick died in 1757. In 1778 John went into partnership with John Robertson I until 1795. After his death in 1793 his wife Margaret ran the business until the partnership was dissolved two years later.
John Robertson, Newcastle silversmith. After his initial partnership with John Langlands 1778-1795, John Robertson I and David Darling created a short but productive partnership ending 15 months later. John Robertson worked on his own until his death in 1801. His widow, Ann continued the business in her own name until she retired in 1811, with the business transferring to her nephew John Robertson II.
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