RECENT ACQUISITIONS - 24th April, 2019
19th Century Indian silver tea set, comprising of teapot, sugar bowl and cream jug. Stunning three-piece tea set decorated with stylised Indian deities in oval cartouche reserves, surrounded with Madras style leaf boarders, bead boarders and realistically modelled cobra handles. Each piece stands on four cast feet, modelled as lion’s paws and the teapot spout is a realistically crafted as an elephant’s head and trunk, the trunk naturalistically raised and mounted with well-formed tusks to either side.
Each piece of this set is stamped to the base with a mark for Cooke & Kelvey (Robert Thomas Cooke and Charles Kelvey, 1859-present).
Reference Number: A5673
Antique late-19th Century Austrian exceptional solid silver gilt & enamel twin handled vase, standing on an oval base, shaped bulbous stem and the body hand painted with classical allegorical scenes, sides applied with cast hippocampus handles. Hallmarked Austrian-Hungarian assay city letter A (Vienna), Makers mark HB (Hermann Bohm)
Reference Number: A5755
19th Century Imperial Russian silver and niello sugar bowl and cream jug, engraved in oval reserves depicting the Kremlin and St Basil's Cathedral, chased throughout with ivy foliate decoration and mounted with plain handles.
Hallmarked Russian silver 84 (875 silver), Moscow, 1892, Assay master L.O (Lev F Oleks), Maker's mark in Cyrillic VS (Vasiliy Semenov)
Reference Number: A5689