ANTIQUE 19thC VICTORIAN SOLID SILVER ORIENTALIST 5 PIECE TEA & COFFEE SET c.1843
19th Century Victorian silver five piece tea service, consisting of a kettle, coffee pot, teapot, sugar bowl, cream jug, each lobed body resting on four scroll feet, profusely embossed with scrolls and flowers and one side decorated in Orientalist style, depicting an Arabic nomad smoking a pipe, surrounded by palmtrees and camel in distance, hinged lids mounted with cast rose finials. Chinoiserie and Orientalist design became popular in the mid-18th century with the Huguenot silversmiths, such as Paul de Lamerie who was greatly inspired by the exotic far east designs and this fashion followed until the late19th Century.
Reference Number: A8436
DESCRIPTION
Antique mid-19th Century exceptionally rare Victorian solid silver five piece tea service, consisting of a kettle, coffee pot, teapot, sugar bowl, cream jug, each lobed body resting on four scroll feet, profusely embossed with scrolls and flowers and one side decorated in Orientalist style, depicting an Arabic nomad smoking a pipe, surrounded by palmtrees and camel in distance, hinged lids mounted with cast rose finials. Chinoiserie and Orientalist design became popular in the mid-18th century with the Huguenot silversmiths, such as Paul de Lamerie who was greatly inspired by the exotic far east designs and this fashion followed until the late19th Century.
The reverse engraved with the family crest and the motto 'morior pro meis' - i die for mine.
Hallmarked English silver (925 standard), London, year 1843 (K), Maker's mark W.K.R (William Ker Reid, workshop in Newcastle).
CONDITION
In Great Condition - No Damage.
SIZE
KETTLE
Height: 41cm
Width: 32 x 26cm
Weight: 3360g
COFFEE POT
Height: 26cm
Width: 26 x 17cm
Weight: 990g
TEAPOT
Height: 20cm
Width: 26 x 18cm
Weight: 810g
SUGAR BOWL
Height: 12cm
Width: 19 x 17cm
Weight: 430g
CREAM JUG
Height: 16cm
Width: 13 x 12cm
Weight: 335g