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A VICTORIAN SILVER FOUR-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE REPRESENTING THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD

MARK OF GEORGE RICHARDS ELKINGTON, LONDON, 1868

已結束2010年2月23日

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A VICTORIAN SILVER FOUR-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE REPRESENTING THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD
MARK OF GEORGE RICHARDS ELKINGTON, LONDON, 1868
Comprising: teapot, coffee pot, cream jug and sugar bowl, each representing a different nation and crop through chased and applied decoration, respectively: China chased with tea merchants and capped by a Mandarin finial, the Middle East depicting a group of warriors with a camel train behind, the finial modelled as an Arab merchant drinking coffee and sitting on a cushion; England depicting a milk maid and cow in a rural setting; and the Caribbean depicting an overseer administering the slaves cutting cane on a sugar plantation; all centred by a vacant cartouche on one side, on four scroll feet terminating at the body in masks, teapot and coffee pot with ivory insulators to handles and with grotesque mask spout terminating in an eagle's head, cream jug and sugar bowl with gilt interiors
83 oz. (2,573 gr.) (4)