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KUTCH, INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A FINE SILVER REPOUSSÉ THREE-PIECE TEA SET AND ITS TRAY
KUTCH, INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The tray on four feet engraved as elegant palmettes sprays; the tea pot with squat rounded body and hinged lid with acorn shaped finial; the coffee pot with pear-shaped body rising to a lightly flaring mouth and hinged domed lid, each with serpentine handle with ivory isolators and with short spout, the mouth worked as a peacock head; the milk jug with squat drop-shaped body, the handle in the form of a swaying palmette engraved with a floriated garland; each with repoussé decoration consisting of felines pursuing their prey amidst dense and intricate scrolling foliage
Tray 14in. (35.6cm.) across; coffee pot 7 ¼in. (18.4cm.) high; tea pot 3 ¾in. (9.5cm.) high; milk jug 3 3/8in. (8.5cm.) high
KUTCH, INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The tray on four feet engraved as elegant palmettes sprays; the tea pot with squat rounded body and hinged lid with acorn shaped finial; the coffee pot with pear-shaped body rising to a lightly flaring mouth and hinged domed lid, each with serpentine handle with ivory isolators and with short spout, the mouth worked as a peacock head; the milk jug with squat drop-shaped body, the handle in the form of a swaying palmette engraved with a floriated garland; each with repoussé decoration consisting of felines pursuing their prey amidst dense and intricate scrolling foliage
Tray 14in. (35.6cm.) across; coffee pot 7 ¼in. (18.4cm.) high; tea pot 3 ¾in. (9.5cm.) high; milk jug 3 3/8in. (8.5cm.) high
Special notice
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