CHARLES A. BURNETT, GEORGETOWN, DC COIN SILVER COFFEE POT, round-form well, topped by a stepped domed lid with an applied eight-point leaf top and berry-like finial, sides having an angled spout with animal head tip and a scrolled handle with acanthus leaf terminals and bone insulators, raised on a round pedestal-type foot, featuring applied die-rolled borders to shoulder and foot base with flower and berry vine pattern. Impressed to underside with a maker's or retailer's mark of "C [pellet] A [pellet] BURNETT" for Charles A. Burnett of Georgetown, DC (active 1796-c. 1840), who was also worked in Fredericksburg, VA (1788-1793) and Alexandria, VA (active 1793-c. 1796); in addition to a few tiny, later impressed French swan hallmarks for silverware of legal standard of fineness but of unknown origin utilized from 1893, featuring two on the edge of the lid flange, one on the outer rim, and two to the outer edge of the foot. Total weight: 44.98 ozt. Circa 1825-1830. 12 1/2" HOA.
Literature: Hollan - Virginia Silversmiths, pp. 111 and 114, mark b. Parallels Hollan - In the Neatest, Most Fashionable Manner: Three Centuries of Alexandria Silver, pp. 38-39, cat. no. 12.
Catalogue Note: On p. 114 in Virginia Silversmiths, Hollan mentions the seven-piece coffee and tea service in the collection of United States Department of State Diplomatic Reception Rooms (accession number RR-1981.0029.1-.7), which has a nearly identical pattern as this present coffee pot.

Very good overall condition with come wear, surface scratches, and nicks, a few scattered dents, a repair to side above shoulder at top terminal of handle, insulators with a few hairlines.