Furniture, Ceramics and Silver
Timed Online Auction, 18 March - 5 April 2024
Silver Session
Lot Estimate
ZAR 12 000 - 15 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 23 450
About this Item
A George III silver four-piece tea service, John Emes, London 1798-1800
comprising: a teapot, a coffee pot, a milk jug and sugar basin, the ovoid bodies engraved with panels of foliate and other designs, enclosing two cartouches, one initialed JBS, the coffee pot and teapot with composition handles, coffee pot 29cm high, 1820g all in, fitted wooden box
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Provenance
Stephan Welz & Co. in association with Sotheby's, Johannesburg, 16 September 1997, lot 389.
Literature
Stephan Welz & Co. (1997) Decorative Arts and Collectors' Items, Cape Town: Creda Press (Pty) Ltd. Pages 42-43.