Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
Live Auction, 7 October 2019
Jewellery, Silver and Furniture
Lot Estimate
ZAR 25 000 - 30 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 28 450
About this Item
Birmingham, London & Sheffield, England
A Victorian assembled five-piece silver tea service, William Gibson & John Lawrence Langman retailed by Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Co, London, 1898-1899
comprising: a teapot, a hot water pot, a kettle-on-stand, a two-handled sugar bowl and a milk jug, each moulded in relief with c-scroll vacant cartouches to one side and engraved with initials to the other, enclosed by foliage and flowerheads, the sides applied with leaf-capped scroll handles, the spout with masks terminating in a bird's head, the cover surmounted by an eagle-shaped finial, raised on pierced, scrolled and beaded bracket feet, the kettle-on-stand with conforming stand, dents, stamped1504 Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company, 112 Regent St, London, W5 and 6, the kettle-on-stand 36cm high, dents, 3715g all in
*This lot is not suitable for export
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Provenance
Presentation to Sir Frederick de Waal, First Admiral of the Cape
Previously owned by Lady Catherine de Waal
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