AN ENGLISH SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE

L. A. Crichton, London 1896/ 1901/1904

Comprising a hot water kettle on stand, teapot, coffee pot, cream jug and covered sugar bowl, the coffee pot and cream jug with baluster bodies, the rest with pyriform bodies, all chased with ribbon tied swags holding initialled oval wreaths below gadrooned rims and above leafage chased bases, continuing to circular molded spreading feet with gadroon and scroll borders, the kettle with a fixed handle and on a pierced chased floral stand with scroll legs and shell feet. The kettle and stand 1896, the coffee pot 1901, the teapot, cream jug and sugar bowl 1904. Kettle and stand lacking pivot and locking pins. H. of kettle and stand: 14, h. of coffee pot: 10-3/4 in.; total wt.: 143 oz.