Lot 299
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A VICTORIAN SILVER FOUR-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**
A VICTORIAN SILVER FOUR-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**

MAKER'S MARK OF ROBERT HARPER, LONDON, 1859

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A VICTORIAN SILVER FOUR-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**
Maker's mark of Robert Harper, London, 1859
Comprising a coffee pot, teapot, sugar bowl and cream jug; each on four scroll feet headed by masks within ruffle, the coffee pot repouss and chased on one side with a middle-eastern encampment in an oasis, the teapot with Chinamen collecting tea leaves, the sugar bowl with harvesters amid sugar canes, the cream jug with a maiden milking a cow, the other sides with vacant cartouche, the hinged domed covers with figural finials, with leaf-capped scroll handles, marked under bases and covers and on coffee pot and teapot handles
The coffee pot 11in. (28cm.) high; gross weight 86oz. 10dwt. (2702gr.) (4)

Lot Essay

Robert Harper established his silversmithing shop in 1853, after leaving the firm of Joseph Angell III. He seems to have specialized in these type of services. A similar one, dated 1867, also comprising a kettle on stand with a scene repouss and chased depicting an Oriental fruit seller, sold in these Rooms, April 14, 1994, lot 301.