Museum Collections

Wrought silver hot milk pot; raised circular form with bulbous lower body, chased and repousséd all over in a floral and swag design, set on four applied feet, each cast and chased in the form of a women's heads with a feathered headdresses tapering to the cast feet; upper body flares to a convex shoulder; hinged, stepped dome lid covered in two rows of chased and repousséd floral garlands and an acanthus design; seated Chinese figure finial; seamed, wide, s-curved spout with an acanthus pendent at the notched lip; scrolled, crest-shaped cartouche in the outer center of the spout; scrolled, cast and chased acanthus leaf handle with angled upper and lower cast handle sockets fitted with ivory insulators and a silver handle; scrolled shield-shaped cartouche in the front center is engraved with the Lenox family crest; four quarters, 1 and 4: argent a saltire engrailled between four roses; 2 and 3: three salmon each with a ring through his nose in a diamond; makers' marks on base.