Pompeiian sterling silver coffee and tea set on tray. Made by Mt Vernon in Mount Vernon, New York, ca 1920. This set comprises kettle on stand, coffeepot, teapot, creamer, sugar, and waste bowl on tray.
Each: Ovoid body on round foot mounted to square base, reeded scroll bracket handles, and domed cover with vasiform finial. Vitruvian scroll rims interspersed with paterae and engraved garlands. On front oval medallion inset with bacchante. On back vacant oval medallion. Kettle stand on 4 ram m...
Austrian 800 silver 4-piece coffee and tea set on tray, ca 1920. This set comprises coffeepot, teapot, creamer, and sugar on tray.
Each: Tapering hexagonal body on raised foot. Handles high-looping stained-wood. Covers stepped with stained-wood finial (pot covers side-hinged). Spouts v-form. Tray has oval well with tapering sides and flat shoulder. Fashionable geometric forms from postwar Mitteleuropa.
Pre-1922 marks. Excellent condition. Teapot handle has minor irregularity.
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Turn-of-the-century Victorian Rococo sterling silver 3-piece coffee set. Made by Gorham in Providence. This set comprises coffeepot, creamer, and sugar. Bellied with irregular fluting at bottom and leaf and scroll-mounted volute scroll supports Handles leaf-capped and rims have applied scrolls. Chased garlands, ribbons, pendant flowers, and leafing scrollwork. Each piece has scrolled frame of which one vacant and the other engraved with interlaced script monogram. Coffeepot has hinged and domed ...
Turn-of-the-century Chantilly-Grand sterling silver 3-piece coffee set. Made by Gorham in Providence. This set comprises coffeepot, creamer, and sugar. Scrolled rims, spread and scrolled foot, and reeded and leaf-capped scroll handles. Two scrolled cartouches of which one vacant and the other engraved with interlaced script monogram. Coffeepot has hinged and domed cover with leaf-ring finial, and leaf-capped scroll spout. Creamer has scrolled helmet mouth. Creamer and sugar have gilt interior. A...
Audubon sterling silver dinner set for 6. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York.
This set comprises 68 pieces (dimensions in inches): Forks: 6 dinner forks (8 1/8), 6 fish forks (6 3/4), 6 salad forks (6 3/4), and 5 dessert forks (6 3/8); Spoons: 6 soup spoons (7 1/4) and 6 teaspoons (6 1/4); 12; Knives: 6 dinner knives (10 2/8), 6 fish knives (8 1/4), 6 dessert knives (7 3/8), and 6 butter spreaders (5 7/8); Servers: sauce ladle (7), bread knife (12 1/4), pie server (10 1/4), cheese knife (7), s...
English Georgian silver coffee & tea set, 1919. This set comprises 4 pieces: Coffeepot, teapot, hot milk jug, and creamer. Faceted and globular bodies. Capped and s-scroll stained-wood handles. Covers hinged and domed with stained-wood and silver finials. Coffeepot and teapot have capped s-scroll spout. Hot milk pot and creamer have u-spout.
All have Britannia (that is, 958) standard mark, London assay stamp, and date letter. Teapot and creamer have worn maker’s stamps. Hot milk pot has Carr...
Persian sterling silver coffee set. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, ca 1910. This set comprises coffeepot, creamer, and sugar on tray.
Coffeepot: Bellied bowl with irregular conical neck with scalloped rim, hinged and domed cover, scrolled handle, vertical scroll spout, and spread foot. Creamer: Oval tapering body, scalloped helmet mouth, high-looping handle, and spread foot. Sugar: Round tapering body with scalloped rim, inset domed cover, and c-scroll side handles threaded through pierced...
Cosmos sterling silver coffee set on tray. Made by Georg Jensen in Copenhagen. This set comprises coffeepot, creamer, and sugar. Gently curved and half-fluted bodies. Coffeepot and creamer have reeded stained-wood high-looping handles with silver bead and tendril split-mount. Coffeepot and sugar have raised cover with lobed bead finial mounted to chased patera. Visible hand hammering. A Danish Modern Classical pattern first produced in 1915. Illustrated in: Drucker, 1997, p. 218 and 221. Fully m...
Midcentury Modern sterling silver coffee set. Made by Spratling in Taxco, Mexico. This set comprises coffeepot, creamer, and sugar.
Coffeepot: Gently upward tapering sides, straight diagonal spout, and hinged and domed cover with cabochon stained-wood finial. Side handle also stained wood. Creamer and sugar: Tapering base and inset top with stained-wood “boomerang” handles.
Fully marked with maker’s stamp (ca 1964-7) and no. 30 eagle stamp, which was in use by maker until early 1966....
Midcentury Modern sterling silver coffee set. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York. This set comprises coffeepot, creamer, and sugar. Coffeepot: Baluster with s-scroll spout, stained-wood handle, and flat cover with berry finial. Creamer: Baluster with helmet mouth and berry-capped looping handle. Sugar: Hemispheric bowl with side-mounted berry handles. Streamlined traditional forms on straight and spread foot. Fully marked including maker’s stamp and postwar pattern nos. 23625 (coffeepot) and 2...
Traditional sterling silver coffee set. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, ca 1925. This set comprises coffeepot, creamer, and sugar. Curved and tapering bodies on round and stepped foot. Covers raised with vasiform finial and handles high-looping. Coffeepot finial and handle stained wood. Coffeepot has vertical s-spout and creamer has lip spout. Fully marked including maker’s stamp, pattern nos. 20638 (coffeepot and creamer) and 20639 (sugar), and director’s letter m. Both patterns first pr...
Edwardian Classical sterling silver coffee set. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, ca 1907. This comprises coffeepot, creamer, and sugar. Coffeepot: Tapering body on raised foot, hinged and domed cover with vasiform finial, vertical s-scroll spout, stained-wood scroll-bracket handle, and raised and round foot. Creamer: Tapering body, helmet mouth, scroll-bracket handle, and raised and round foot. Sugar: Hemispheric bowl with scroll-bracket side handles and raised and round foot. Traditional simp...
Turn-of-the-century Edwardian sterling silver 3-piece baby set. Made by Barbour Silver Co. (part of International) in Hartford. This set comprises cup, bowl, and plate. Cup has tapering sides, flared rim, and high-looping handle. Bowl has flared rim and tapering sides. Plate has deep well and wide shoulder. Engraved scenes from popular tales and rhymes heightened with enamel: Little Jack Horner and same Bo Peep (cup), Hey Diddle Diddle (bowl), and Three Bears (plate).
Fully marked including ma...
Craftsman hand-hammered sterling silver 3-piece coffee set. Made by the Kalo Shop in Chicago, ca 1920. This set comprises coffeepot, creamer, and sugar. Coffeepot: Straight and upward tapering body with s-scroll spout and high-looping stained-wood handle. Cover hinged and domed with stained-wood finial. Creamer: Straight and upward tapering body with elongated v-spout and high-looping handle. Sugar: Drum-form with upward tapering sides and same side handles. All pieces have applied single-letter...
