A tea urn D. Maria I, Queen of Portugal (1777-1816) 854/1000 silver gadrooned and engraved decoration with FB monogram, handles en relief "Lion's fauces", striated columns with zoomorphic feet, "ball" feet, "Flower" top and base finial, carved wooden tap finial. Portuguese missing petal on the lower flower, minor defect at the tip of the tap finial, other minor defects. Porto assay mafrk (1803-1810), maker's mark attributable to António José de Sousa (1793-1842) Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 62 cm; Peso - 5.758 g. Notes: Vd. ALMEIDA, Fernando Moitinho de; CARLOS, Rita - "Inventário de Marcas de Pratas Portuguesas e Brasileiras - Século XV a 1887". Lisbon: IN-CM, 2018, P-18 e P-131; e SOUSA, Gonçalo de Vasconcelos e - “Dicionário de ourives e lavrantes da prata do Porto, 1750-1825”, Civilização Editora, 2005, pp. 512-514. A tea urn produced by the same maker is reproduced in SOUSA, Gonçalo de Vasconcelos - "Pratas nas Colecções do Douro", Silver Biennial - Lamego/Lello Editores, 2001, p. 198, No. 45. Another example with gadrooned decoration was sold at Silva's auction house on May 10, 1997, lot 139 for 1,800 contos, having the particularity of having as its assayer António José de Sousa (1793-1842), the maker of this piece. Another tea urn with very similar decoration was sold at Silva's auction house on November 3, 1988, lot 189 for 7,000 contos.