ANTIQUE 20thC INDIAN BURMESE SOLID SILVER SCULPTURAL TEA & COFFEE SET c.1920
20th Century Burmese Colonial Silver four-piece tea and coffee set, comprising of teapot, coffee pot, lidded sugar bowl and cream jug, each body is higly-decorative, chased and repoussed with various scenes from Burmese floklore and animals, the sculptural teapot and coffee pot are applied with a cast figural handle and each spout is embellished with a grotesque mask and terminates with a naga head, each cover is surmounted by a "to-aung" (bull-lion) finial.
Acid tested shows a 900+ silver standard.
REFERENCE NUMBER: A2930
DESCRIPTION
Antique 20th Century Burmese Colonial Solid Silver four-piece tea and coffee set, comprising of teapot, coffee pot, lidded sugar bowl and cream jug, each body is higly-decorative, chased and repoussed with various scenes from Burmese floklore and animals, the sculptural teapot and coffee pot are applied with a cast figural handle and each spout is embellished with a grotesque mask and terminates with a naga head, each cover is surmounted by a "to-aung" (bull-lion) finial.
The set is exceptionally decorative and heavy, the whole set weights over 3 kilos of high-grade silver (acid tested shows a 900+ silver standard).
As always the case for Burmese silver the set appears to be unmarked, but an almost identical set sold in a major auction house in 2011 is Hallmarked by "MG. SHWE YON BROS". Maung Shwe Yon Bros is one the greatest silversmiths active in Rangoon (today Yangon) in the late 19th Century. The set might have been produced in his workshop after his death, and it probably dates to year 1920's.
CONDITION
In Great Condition - no damage.
TEAPOT
Height: 16.8cm
Width: 28 x 16cm
COFFEE POT
Height: 23.5cm
Width: 25 x 12cm
SUGAR BOWL
Height: 12.8cm
Width: 15 x 10cm
CREAM JUG
Height: 9.2cm
Width: 14 x 10cm
TOTAL WEIGHT: 3010g
