Details
A GEORGE IV SILVER FIVE-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
MAKER'S MARK OF BENJAMIN SMITH, LONDON, 1821/26
Comprising: a coffee pot on stand with burner, a tea kettle, a waste bowl, a sugar bowl and a cream jug, each melon-form, on spreading shaped circular base, the shoulders and spouts with foliate band and chased floral panels on a matted ground, with everted foliate and scroll rim, the hinged covers with conforming decoration and bud finial, with foliate clad and wood scroll handles, the stand on three stylized shell feet headed by scrolls and foliage, the lower body of the cream jug engraved WEP 1790, WP 1837, EP 1856 and WPD 1904, fully marked
coffee pot on stand 12½in. (31.7cm.) high
(gross weight 145oz. 10dwt., 4526gr.) (5)
MAKER'S MARK OF BENJAMIN SMITH, LONDON, 1821/26
Comprising: a coffee pot on stand with burner, a tea kettle, a waste bowl, a sugar bowl and a cream jug, each melon-form, on spreading shaped circular base, the shoulders and spouts with foliate band and chased floral panels on a matted ground, with everted foliate and scroll rim, the hinged covers with conforming decoration and bud finial, with foliate clad and wood scroll handles, the stand on three stylized shell feet headed by scrolls and foliage, the lower body of the cream jug engraved WEP 1790, WP 1837, EP 1856 and WPD 1904, fully marked
coffee pot on stand 12½in. (31.7cm.) high
(gross weight 145oz. 10dwt., 4526gr.) (5)