The first silver teapot made in England would have been taken for a coffee pot (tall, straight-sided, and cylindrical) were it not for the engraved inscription:
Siluer tea Pott was presented to ye Comtte / of ye East India Cumpany by ye Right Honoue / George Lord Berkeley of Berkeley Castle / A member of that Honourable & worthy Society and A True Hearty Louer of them 1670.
