South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 6 February 2012
Part 2 - Jewellery & Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 35 000 - 40 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 72 410
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
Sheffield, England
An Edwardian five-piece silver tea service, George Howson, Sheffield, 1904
comprising: a teapot, kettle-on-stand with burner, hot water jug, milk jug, and a two-handled sugar bowl, with leaf-capped scroll and ivory handles, egg-and-dart and acanthus-leaf rim, the bodies engraved with the initials TMC (Thomas Major Cullinan) above a band of scrolling foliage and lobing, on four scroll feet, and a pair of sugar tongs, George Howson, Sheffield, 1901, 5445g all in, the kettle-on-stand 37cm high
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Provenance
Sir Thomas Major Cullinan (1862-1936), South African diamond magnate, and thence by descent to the present owner
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