Lot 325
Late Victorian Sterling Silver Tea and Coffee Service

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Price Realized: $3,875
Includes buyer's premium

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About this Lot
Description

Heath & Middleton, London, 1901 in the manner of Christopher Dresser, comprising a teapot, coffee pot, two-handle sugar bowl, creamer, and kettle and stand (dated 1899), each of waisted form with engraved monogram and mounted with boar teeth handles, the pots with tooth finials each piece stamped 'JTH/JHM' for John Thomas Heath & John Hartshorne Middleton, with hallmarks together with a Heath & Middleton oval tray with pierced gallery and mounted with boar teeth handles, stamped 'JTH/JHM' with hallmarks: Birmingham, 1902 approx weight inclusive: 6,506 grams

Provenance

From a Private Manhattan Collection

Condition

overall in good condition, minor wear consistent with age and gentle use, scattered breaks, losses, and cracks to teeth, break and loss to one chain lock of kettle warmer