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A VICTORIAN SILVER 'FIVE O'CLOCK' TEAPOT, M. & C. LISTER LTD., BIRMINGHAM, 1905

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May 20, 02:25 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A VICTORIAN SILVER 'FIVE O'CLOCK' TEAPOT, M. & C. LISTER LTD., BIRMINGHAM, 1905

of unusual pyramid form with raised borders, set on either side with an oval jasperware plaque, each decorated with a raised air-borne winged nymph with garland in white against a 'Wedgwood' blue ground, silver loop handle with ivory fillets, the hinged domed cover with spherical ivory finial

11cm., 4 ¼ in. wide

412gr., 13oz. 4dwt, all in

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'Social Record. . . . The artistic tea cosy, which threatened last year to go out of fashion, has returned to favour, and dainty trifles of chiffon of silk, only sufficiently large to cover the regulation ''five o'clock'' teapot, are much in evidence.' (The Daily Mail, Kingston-upon-Hull, Thursday, 27 September 1906, p. 4f)