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A VICTORIAN SILVER FIVE-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE AND ASSOCIATED TRAY BELONGING TO ELEANOR ROOSEVELT**

MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1849, THE KETTLE-ON-STAND 1859; THE TRAY MARK OF SAINT ARNAUD CREAKE, SHEFFIELD, 1912

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A VICTORIAN SILVER FIVE-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE AND ASSOCIATED TRAY BELONGING TO ELEANOR ROOSEVELT**
MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1849, THE KETTLE-ON-STAND 1859; THE TRAY MARK OF SAINT ARNAUD CREAKE, SHEFFIELD, 1912
In the Paul de Lamerie pattern, comprising a hot water kettle-on-stand, a coffee pot, teapot, cream jug and open sugar bowl, each fluted pear-form and chased with strapwork, the kettle, coffee pot and teapot with ivory handles, the tea kettle with ivory knop, the kettle-on-stand with detachable burner, the kettle-on-stand engraved with a crest, each marked under base and cover; the associated silver tray rectangular, with chased foliate field and gadrooned border, marked on field
The kettle-on-stand 16½ in. (42 cm.) high; 294 oz. 10 dwt. (9,164 gr.) gross weight (6)

Provenance

From the estate of Eleanor Roosevelt, Val-Kill Farms, Hyde Park, New York, sold Gatlinburg Art Galleries, Gatlinberg, TN, October 16-30, 1964, lot 702.

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Descriptif du lot

The Roosevelt Era: Selections from the private Collections of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and Family included sixty lots of silver, some used at val-kill, sold Christie's, New York, 14-15 Februry 2001.

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