Auction 103 Antiques & Works of Art, Silver & Jewellery

90

A tea and coffee set


Estimate

4.000 - 6.000


Session 1

9 December 2020



Description

Portuguese silver, 19th century
Teapot, coffee pot, milk jug and sugar bowl
Profuse raised and engraved decoration of foliage motifs and gadrooned friezes, swan neck spout of identical decoration and fantastic animal finial
Figure and bulb lid pommels and carved wooden handles of applied classical masks
On four claw and ball feet
Lisbon assay marks (L-46) for 1870-1879 and same date maker's mark (L-214) attributable to Domingues da Cruz Estanislau Costa

Height: 28,5 cm (bule)
4427


Category

Silver


Additional Information

Literature:
F. Moitinho de Almeida/Rita Carlos
"Inventário de Marcas de Pratas Portuguesas e Brasileiras"
séc. XV a 1887
pp. 112 e 144



Closed Auction