A FIVE-PIECE PEWTER AND RATTAN COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE WITH TRAY

ARCHIBALD KNOX, FOR LIBERTY & CO., CIRCA 1903

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A FIVE-PIECE PEWTER AND RATTAN COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE WITH TRAY
Archibald Knox, for Liberty & Co., circa 1903
comprising: a coffee pot, tea pot, hot water pot, sugar, creamer and tray
coffee pot 8in. (22.2cm.); tray 19in. (49.5cm.) wide
the coffee pot and creamer stamped RD 420290 ENGLISH PEWTER 0231 O; the teapot stamped RD 420290 ENGLISH PEWTER 0231; the hot water pot stamped 'TUDRIC' ENGLISH PEW LIBERTY & CO 0231; sugar stamped 9 ENGLISH PEWTER 0231 RD 420290; the tray stamped ENGLISH PEWTER 0231, each marked beneath base (6)

Lot Essay

cf. Kurland.Zabar, Reflections: Arts & Crafts Metalwork in England and the United States, 1989, p. 29, fig. 45 and Stephen A. Martin, ed., Archibald Knox, 1995, p. 110 for illustrations of the same coffee pot, teapot, hot water pot, sugar and creamer forms with similar honesty decoration in a martel finish.

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