Object Description
An antique English provincial silver teapot of oval shape having a domed lid, quality inset hinge and bands of bright cut engraving. Hand engraved to the front with a wreath cartouche containing a family armorial. Contains 975 ml. Weight 529 grams, 17 troy ounces. Spread 28 cms. Height 16.5 cms. Newcastle 1799. Maker John Langlands.
Biography – John Langlands I, 18th century Newcastle silversmith. For more than half a century the Langlands family were the largest manufacturers of plate silver in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. On the death of Isaac Cookson in 1754, two of his former apprentices, John Langlands I and John Goodrick, took over his business. Goodrick died in 1757 and in 1778 John Langlands I took John Robertson I as partner, a well respected partnership which was dissolved in 1795 two years after Langlands’ death. Langlands’ son John II continued the business until his death in 1804 when his widow Dorothy took over until her retirement in 1814.