
A GEORGE II SILVER COFFEE-POT, MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, 1738 (£3.5-4.5 million) © Christie’s Images Limited 2013. (Click on image to enlarge).
THE most important coffee pot ever at auction comes up at Christie’s London in The Exceptional Sale on July 4. The Rococo masterpiece by Paul de Lamerie (1688–1751) – the greatest silversmith working in Britain in the 18th century – is expected to become the most valuable piece of English silver ever to be sold at auction. The George II silver coffee-pot was created in 1738, for a successful merchant and is now estimated at £3.5-4.5 million. It was the centrepiece of the British Silver exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum in New York.






















