arter of the
eighteenth century the pear shaped coffee pot was the vogue. In the
earlier years of George III, when many new and beautiful designs in
silversmiths' work were created, a complete revolution in
coffee-pots takes place, and the flowing outlines of the new
pattern recall the form of the Turkish ewer, which had been
discarded nearly one hundred years previously.

[Illustration: CHINESE PORCELAIN COFFEE POT

Late seventeenth century]

The evolution is shown by illustrations of Lord Swaythling's pot of
1731; the coffee jug of 1736; the Vincent pot of 1738; the Viscountess
Wolseley's coffee pot of copper plated with silver; the Irish coffee pot
of 1760; and the silver coffee pots of 1773-76 and of 1779-80 (see
illustrations on pages 604, 605 and 607).

[Illustration: Vincent Pot, Hall-marked, London, 1738

Lord Swaythling's Pot, 1731

SILVER COFFEE POTS, EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

From Jackson's "Illustrated History of English Plate"]

There are illustrated in this connection specimens of coffee pots in
stoneware by Elers (1700), and in salt glaze by Astbury, and another of
the period about 1725. These are in the department of British and
medieval antiquities of the British Museum, where are to be seen also
some beautiful specimens of coffee-service pots in Whieldon ware, and in
Wedgwood's jasper ware.

[Illustration: IRISH COFFEE POT, 1760

Hall-marked Dublin; the property of Col. Moore-Brabazon]

[Illustration: VISCOUNTESS WOLSELEY'S COFFEE POT]

[Illustration: A SCOFIELD POT OF 1779-80]

[Illustration: COFFEE JUG, 1736]

[Illustration: SILVER COFFEE POTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY]

[Illustration: SALT-GLAZE POT

By John Astbury]

[Illustration: ELERS WARE COFFEE POT

Stoneware, about 1700]

[Illustration: SALT-GLAZE POT

About 1725]

[Illustration: POTS IN POTTERY AND PORCELAIN 18TH TO 20TH CENTURIES

1--Staffordshire; 2--English, eighteen to twentieth centuries;
3--English, blue printed ware, eighteenth to nineteenth centuries;
4--Leeds, 1760-1790; 5--Staffordshire, nineteenth to twentieth
centuries]

Illustrated, too, are some beautiful examples of the art of the potter,
applied to coffee service, as found in the Metropolitan Museum, where
they have been brought from many countries. Included are Leeds and
Staffordshire examples of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth
centuries; a Sino-Lowestoft pot of the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries;
an It