
Description
AN AMERICAN SILVER SEVEN-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE AND TRAY
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1930
Details
Hampton pattern, comprising a teapot, coffee pot, kettle on lamp stand, hot milk jug, creamer, two-handled sugar bowl and cover, and waste bowl, all rectangular with incurved corners, chased and engraved with borders of scrolling foliage and flowers, with rectangular baluster finials, the tray rectangular with cut-out handles and conforming border of scrolling foliage, engraved throughout with block monogram AMcK, marked and numbered on undersides throughout 12 1⁄8 in. (30.8 cm.) high, over handle, the kettle on lamp stand; 24 1⁄4 in. (61.5 cm.) long, over handles, the tray 280 oz. 4 dwt. (8,714 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
Helen Alberta McKay McAlpin (1901-1994), to her son, Benjamin Brandreth McAlpin III (1929-2010) and his wife Irene McAlpin, later Irene Roosevelt Aitken.
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1930
Details
Hampton pattern, comprising a teapot, coffee pot, kettle on lamp stand, hot milk jug, creamer, two-handled sugar bowl and cover, and waste bowl, all rectangular with incurved corners, chased and engraved with borders of scrolling foliage and flowers, with rectangular baluster finials, the tray rectangular with cut-out handles and conforming border of scrolling foliage, engraved throughout with block monogram AMcK, marked and numbered on undersides throughout 12 1⁄8 in. (30.8 cm.) high, over handle, the kettle on lamp stand; 24 1⁄4 in. (61.5 cm.) long, over handles, the tray 280 oz. 4 dwt. (8,714 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
Helen Alberta McKay McAlpin (1901-1994), to her son, Benjamin Brandreth McAlpin III (1929-2010) and his wife Irene McAlpin, later Irene Roosevelt Aitken.
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AN AMERICAN SILVER SEVEN-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE AND TRAY MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK,
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