Description
A drum-shaped silver mustard pot with reeded rim at top and bottom. It has a C-scroll handle, to the top of which is attached a hinged, domed lid with spherical finial and small semi-circular cut-out opposite the hinge. The flat hinge plate, which is reeded and reflects the domed form of the lid, has a simple thumbpiece attached. The interior of both pot and lid is gilded, with signs of a small early repair in line with the handle’s upper fixture. The pot has a well-fitting, removable, cylindrical blue glass liner of later date. The silver is of good gauge and of Sterling standard or better.
Dimensions & Weight:
Diameter: 6.4 cm / 2 1/2 in.; Height (to rim of pot): 5.3 cm / 2 1/8 in.; Height (to top of lid finial): 8.5 cm / 3 5/16 in.; Weight: 120 gm / 4 ozT.
Maker’s Marks:
The maker’s mark of Roman capitals ‘ H G’ in a rectangular punch, accompanied by that of a thistle in a chamfered rectangular punch, appears on the base of the pot and is for Hugh Gordon of Madras.
Hugh Gordon was born in Aberdeen ca. 1767. He retired to Aberdeen from India in 1804 and died there in 1834. He was active in Madras from 1792 to 1802, for much of which time he was listed as a watchmaker and jeweller, and was well regarded for his earlier training in Aberdeen as well as his experience in London.
