PORTUGAL, mid 18th century. Important silver (833/ min. 800) piriform truncated-cone coffee pot with pinched ribs in accolades, decorated with repoussé and engraved floral rocailles on a grained ground, on a pedestal, decorated with shells en suite. Long sinuous molded spout with scroll decoration. Sinuous handle with lug and fretel in molded or turned wood. On the profile of the pedestal: traces of hallmarks, one presumed to be that of the silversmith [I.C?] and the other of a crowned L for LISBON. Test strich. The fretel nut probably re-stamped at the PORTO office with the second title [hure de sanglier II], in the period 1886-1938. Gross weight : 1.473 g. - H.: 29 cm. Numerous cracks and crazing to the dry wood; scratches and minor knocks from use. This tall coffeepot takes its form from the English coffeepots of the reign of George II (1727-1760).