Teapot - .925 silver - Sterling silver 925

Beautiful English teapot, London, 1874, made by the silversmith George Fox, a famous silversmith belonging to the Fox family, among the best English silversmiths in London, specialists in tea and coffee services decorated with fine engravings; the object bears four marks on the bottom (the passant lion, leopard's head, Queen Victoria's head, the Gothic letter t which, as in the silver marks book, signifies sterling silver 925, London, Queen Victoria, year 1874). Under the lid is the silversmith's mark GF, standing for George Fox, from a renowned family of silversmiths operating from 1861 to the end of the century.