A FIVE-PIECE SILVER TEA SERVICE
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A FIVE-PIECE SILVER TEA SERVICE

MARK OF THOMAS FLETCHER & SIDNEY GARDINER, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1815

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A FIVE-PIECE SILVER TEA SERVICE
MARK OF THOMAS FLETCHER & SIDNEY GARDINER, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1815
Comprising two teapots, a cream jug, a sugar bowl and a waste bowl, each shaped rectangular, on a rectangular base on four claw-and-ball feet, with rose and leaf borders, the sugar bowl and waste bowl with female mask handles, the cream jug with scroll handle with eagle-head join, the teapots with angular wooden handles, the teapots and sugar bowl covers with acanthus and acorn finials, marked under base, one teapot apparently unmarked
The teapots 9 in. (22.9 cm.) high; 163 oz. 10 dwt. (5, 093 gr.) gross weight (5)

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Lot Essay

A teapot and two tea and coffee services of similar design are illustrated in Donald L. Fennimore and Ann K. Wagner, Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 2007, p.p. 74, 114, 116, illus. fig. 5.3, cat. no. 3 and no. 5.

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