ANTIQUE 20THC INDIAN BURMESE SOLID SILVER SCULPTURAL TEA COFFEE SET & TRAY C1920
20th Century Burmese Colonial Silver six-piece tea and coffee set on a tray, comprising of teapot, coffee pot, lidded sugar bowl, cream jug and slop bowl on a tray, each piece is highly-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 shaped-oval tray is also chased with similar scenes.
Acid tested shows a 900+ silver standard.
REFERENCE NUMBER: A2930
DESCRIPTION
Antique 20th Century rare and magnificent Burmese Colonial Solid Silver six-piece tea and coffee set on a tray, comprising of teapot, coffee pot, lidded sugar bowl, cream jug and slop bowl on a tray, each piece is highly-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 shaped-oval tray is also chased with similar scenes.
The set is exceptionally decorative and heavy, the whole set weights 4.133 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 is most probably later, dating to the 1920's.
CONDITION
In Great Condition - no damage.
TEAPOT
Height: 19.3cm
Width: 25.5 x 14.5cm
COFFEE POT
Height: 24.3cm
Width: 25.5 x 11.5cm
SUGAR BOWL
Height: 13.5cm
Width: 15 x 9cm
CREAM JUG
Height: 11cm
Width: 13.5 x 8.8cm
SLOP BOWL
Height: 5.5cm
Width: 7.7cm
TRAY
Width: 45 x 35cm
TOTAL WEIGHT: 4135g
