Lot 2204
  • 2204

A George III silver five-piece tea set, Henry Chawner, London, 1788/9

Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 USD
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Description

  • marked on bases, the creamer 1788, the rest 1789
  • silver, wood
  • length of teapot 10 in.
  • 25.4 cm
comprising a Teapot, teapot Stand, large and small Sugar Baskets with swing handles, and Creamer, all shaped oval with bright-cut borders of leaf-tips below bands of dots

Literature

George Parker, “Lighting and Dining in the Eighteenth Century: Silver Pewter, Brass and Bronze,” Wisconsin Academy Review, 43: 3 (Summer 1997), 18.

Condition

all pieces with one or more small dings, otherwise good condition
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