Important Silversmiths - James Charles Edington
19th Century Georgian silver tea kettle on a stand, the body is profusely and beautifully chased with shells,scrolls and flowers, the domed hinged cover terminates with a cast flower finial, embellished spout, swing-handle decorated with cast acanthus leaf junctions and turned wooden handle, the kettle rests on the original three-feet stand and detachable burner and cover, both side with large protruding vacant cartouches and applied cast leaf borders.
Hallmarked English silver (925 ), London, year 1830 (p), Maker JCE for James Charles Edington.
Reference Number: A5558
James Charles Edington was an important English silversmith, producing silver in Victorian and Georgian style.
Apprenticed to William Ker Reid, he was free in 1824. In 1828 he registered his first mark from Berwick Street in London. He moved to Leicester Square in 1837 registering first as a working silversmith, until 1862, and later as a manufacturing silversmith.
Between 1830 and 1840 Edington was chief supplier to the prestigious retail goldsmith and jeweller Green, Ward & Green of Cockpur Street: that decade was the most prolific of his career.
Although the business continued in his name after June 1869, it would appear that J.C. Edington had retired or died.
A tea caddy by Edington is today part of the Victoria and Albert museum’s collection.
