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ANTIQUE 19thC VICTORIAN SOLID SILVER TENIERS HOT WATER KETTLE, J FIGG c.1879

19th Century Victorian silver hot water kettle on stand, heavy and impressive, pear-form body chased with rustic scenes of peasants merry-making, in the style of the Dutch painter David Teniers. The lid mounted with a figural finial of a drunken peasants sitting on barrels. The kettle is clearly inspired by the tea services made by Edward Farrell in the early 19th century.

Hallmarked English Silver (925 ), London, year 1879 (D), Maker's mark IF for John Figg.

Reference Number: A8440

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ANTIQUE 19thC VICTORIAN SOLID SILVER ORIENTALIST 5 PIECE TEA & COFFEE SET c.1843

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ANTIQUE 19thC VICTORIAN SOLID SILVER 4 PIECE TEA & COFFEE SERVICE, GLASGOW c1859

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ANTIQUE 19thC VICTORIAN SOLID SILVER ORIENTALIST 4 PIECE TEA & COFFEE SET c.1844

19th Century Victorian silver four piece tea service, consisting of coffee pot, teapot, sugar bowl, cream jug, each lobed body resting on four scroll feet, profusely embossed in the Chinoiserie, Orientalist and Tenniers style, ingeniously decorated with themes relating to the content of each piece, the coffee pot decorated with an Arabic orientalist scene, the teapot with a chinoiserie scene, the sugar bowl with an American sugar plantation, the milk jug with a Tenniers inspired agricultural scene and hinged lid mounted with cast seated nomad finials.

Hallmarked English silver (925), London, year 1865 (R), Maker's mark R.H (Robert Harper, Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, London).

Reference Number: A8437