• Title
  [Silver coffee pot] Presented to Major Mitchell on his discovery of Australia Felix in 1836
• Call number
  SAFE/R 180
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1833
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  447127
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 1 silver coffee pot - 25 cm. (high) x 26 cm. (tip of spout to opposite extremity of handle) x 17 cm. (wide) - Elaborately worked with floral designs. Handle is trimmed with two rings of ivory. Lid is hinged. Crest on right side portrays a male bust, bearded, with scroll above reading "SPE EXPECTO"; on left side crest depicts a hand holding a quill, with scroll above reading "FAVENTE DEO SUPERO"; being the crests of Livingstone and Mitchell respectively
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright
• General note
  
  As Surveyor-General of NSW, Mitchell led several expeditions including that to the Western District of Victoria, which he named Australia Felix. He was knighted as Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell in 1839
  This coffee pot was presented to Major Mitchell by London merchants led by the Earl of Clarendon
  Maker is probably John Walton, Newcastle (UK) or James Welshman, Bath (UK), 1833. Marks: IW, lion passant, date letter S, king's head, leopard's head. Reference: Stories in Silver exhibition (curated by Brian Eggleton), State Library of NSW, 1996
  Digital order no:Album ID : 866575
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title from dedication engraved around upper half
  "By the Earl of Clarendon / H. Hare / January, 1839" -- engraved at centre of lower right side
  "W. Robertson / T. Southey & Co. / D. Meehan & Co."; "Brown & Co. / E. Norris, Asiatic Society / Gilbert Bolden" -- engraved around lower right side
  "Messrs. Wrights & Co. / Ogilvie / F. Boucher"; "Messrs. Landbroke & Co. / Graham & Co. / W. H. Burnand" -- engraved around lower left side
• Name
  Mitchell, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1855
  
• Topic
  coffeepots
  presentation pieces
  silverware
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Stories in silver - State Library of New South Wales
  Naming Bendigo - Post Office Gallery
  Impact: a changing land - State Library of New South Wales
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3250740

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