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A GEORGE III SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN EMES, LONDON, 1800
Comprising a coffee pot, teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl, the vase-shaped coffee pot on spreading oval base and with hinged domed cover with acorn finial, with detachable strainer frame, the oval teapot with hinged slightly-domed cover with part wood finial, the milk jug and sugar bowl with reeded loop handles, bright-cut engraved with foliage borders and with two foliage wreath cartouches, one vacant, the other engraved with a crest, marked on bodies and covers
the coffee pot 12¼in. (31cm.) high
gross 56ozs. (1,770grs.)
The crest is that of Elliot (4)
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN EMES, LONDON, 1800
Comprising a coffee pot, teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl, the vase-shaped coffee pot on spreading oval base and with hinged domed cover with acorn finial, with detachable strainer frame, the oval teapot with hinged slightly-domed cover with part wood finial, the milk jug and sugar bowl with reeded loop handles, bright-cut engraved with foliage borders and with two foliage wreath cartouches, one vacant, the other engraved with a crest, marked on bodies and covers
the coffee pot 12¼in. (31cm.) high
gross 56ozs. (1,770grs.)
The crest is that of Elliot (4)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's, 26 June 1963, lot 81, (£330 to Kaye)