Mappin & Webb
Silver, Furniture, Ceramics & Glass
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 80 000 - 90 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 147 784
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
Birmingham, London & Sheffield, England
A Victorian/Edwardian five-piece silver 'Cellini' pattern tea and coffee service, Mappin & Webb Ltd, London, 1897-1909
comprising; a kettle-on-stand with burner, a coffee pot, a hot water pot, a two-handled sugar bowl and a milk jug, each ornately embossed with panels of masks in cartouches, goats and foliate scroll decoration, with caryatid handles, on domed stepped circular footrims, the base engraved 'MAPPIN & WEBB, LONDON', the two-handled sugar bowl engraved 'SHEFFIELD & JOHANNESBURG, MAPPIN & WEBB, LONDON' the kettle-on-stand 40cm high, 4525g all in
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Provenance
This silver tea and coffee service, together with the tray in the following lot, were used for tea at Doornkloof, home of General and Mrs Smuts, during the Royal Visit in 1947 of King George VI, his wife Queen Elizabeth and his two daughters, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, when they were reunited with their cousins, the exiled Prince Paul and Princess Frederica Louise of Greece. On Lilian Elizabeth Smuts Dreyer's death in 2002, (granddaughter of Issie Smuts) this service and tray were passed to the current owner.
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