Lot 406
A GEORGE IV TEA POT
of squat circular form with a reeded girdle around the centre and a rising, fluted cover with a cast crest*, with a c-scroll handle & a collet foot, the base lightly inscribed "From his aunt Lady Arden 1822 Thomas Walpole, Balliol Coll-Oxford", the crest by Paul Storr, the tea pot by John Cope Folkard, london 1822; 5.6" (14.3 cms) high; 19.2 oz
*The crest formed as the bust of a bearded man in profile coupled at the shoulders ppr., ducally crowned and from the coronet flowing a long cap turned forwards, tassled and charged with a Catherine-wheel for Walpole, Baron Walpole of Wolverton, Norfolk & Earl of Orford, Baron Walpole.
