An extensive Victorian silver basket weave pattern tea service, Robert Hennell & Sons, London 1855-1867

An extensive Victorian silver basket weave pattern tea service

Robert Hennell & Sons, London

1855-1867

Comprising a teapot, sugar bowl, cream jug, honey pot and stand, butter dish and stand, biscuit barrel, egg cruet (the spoons Francis Higgins, London 1862), together with a cased set of twelve pairs of fruit knives and forks (Francis Higgins, London 1855-1867), all in a realistic basket weave design, the honey pot and butter dish with blue glass liners, the teapot with wood insulators.

Biscuit barrel 19.5cm.; 7 3⁄4 in. high

4945gr.; 159oz. excluding glass and fruit cutlery