Assembled Six-piece Victorian Gilded Sterling Silver Tea Service

Description:

Assembled Six-piece Victorian Gilded Sterling Silver Tea Service, London, each with pear-form body with engraved, chased, and applied rustic scenes of peasants merrymaking in the style of Teniers, raised on four figural feet, monogrammed "S.A.B.S." to underside; four 1888-89, maker's mark rubbed: a kettle, teapot, open sugar, and creamer; and two 1900-01, maker's mark "GI:", a smaller creamer and waste bowl; together with associated sugar tongs, London, 1875-76, lacking maker's mark, and Howard & Co. kettle stand with burner; approx. 96.4 total troy oz.

Provenance: By family decent from Sophia Augusta Brown Sherman (1867-1947),daughter of John Carter Brown II (1797-1874) and Sophia Augusta Browne Brown (1825-1909) and the wife of William Watts Sherman (1842-1912),to the present owner.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

All with usage wear/surface abrasions. Most with visible seam to base. Burner with dents and cracks to ivory knob. Teapot with repair to finial, lacking one ivory heatstop, and with shallow dent to base. Tongs with repair to finial. Larger creamer re-gilded. Smaller creamer with loss to significant loss to gilding.


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