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]).

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.

Irish Coffee Pot, 1760
Hall-marked Dublin; the property of Col. Moore-Brabazon

Viscountess Wolseley's Coffee Pot

A Scofield Pot of 1779–80

Coffee Jug, 1736

SILVER COFFEE POTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY