ANTIQUE 19thC GEORGIAN SOLID SILVER GILT 7 PIECE TEA SERVICE, LONDON c.1818
Antique early-19th Century rare Georgian solid silver impressively large and extremely heavy cast and chased tea and coffee service. Extraordinary and magnificent quality, richly gilt, each piece featuring a very rare design in the style of the 17th Century Dutch paintings depicting scenes in high relief, one side profusely embossed and applied with a Mythological wedding feasts, the other side depicting a crowded cavalry battle in high relief, each piece rests on four cast feet modelled as seated boars, the tea and coffee pots featuring an eagle-shaped spout and milk jug with carved eagle-shaped handles and cast floral finials.
Reference Number: A8544
DESCRIPTION
Antique early-19th Century rare Georgian solid silver impressively large and extremely heavy cast and chased tea and coffee service. Extraordinary and magnificent quality, richly gilt, each piece featuring a very rare design in the style of the 17th Century Dutch paintings depicting scenes in high relief, one side profusely embossed and applied with a Mythological wedding feasts, the other side depicting a crowded cavalry battle in high relief, each piece rests on four cast feet modelled as seated boars, the tea and coffee pots featuring an eagle-shaped spout and milk jug with carved eagle-shaped handles and cast floral finials.
Each part is Hallmarked English Silver (Britannia 958 standard, highest quality of British silver), London, Coffee pot, Teapot, milk jug year 1818 (c), Sugar bowl, tea caddies, year 1820 (e), Maker William Elliott or William Eaton (Attribution not certain; this could be a rare non-flatware mark of William Eaton, but the punch shape matches the pelleted marks of neither Eaton nor Elliott as illustrated by Grimwade.) Covered milk jug hallmarked English silver (925 standard), London, year 1867 (m), RG for Robert Garrard.
CONDITION
In Great Condition - No Damage.
SIZE
COFFEE POT
Height: 24cm
Width: 25 x 15cm
Weight: 1635g
TEAPOT
Height: 17cm
Width: 27 x 16.5cm
Weight: 1520g
SUGAR BOWL
Height: 17cm
Width: 22cm
Weight: 1155g
CREAM JUG
Height: 13cm
Width: 19 x 13cm
Weight: 705g
TEA CADDY
Height: 15cm
Width: 14cm
Combined Weight: 1400g
MILK JUG
Height: 17cm
Width: 16 x11cm
Weight: 650g