拍品专文
A similar three-piece gilt tea service by the same, of 1804 and 1805, is illustrated in The Glory of the Goldsmith, Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, exhibition catalogue, 1989, no. 117.
细节
A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT THREE-PIECE TEA SERVICE
LONDON, 1806 AND 1810, MAKER'S MARK OF DIGBY SCOTT & BENJAMIN SMITH II
Comprising teapot, cream jug and sugar bowl; each of vase-shaped form, on spreading circular rim foot chased with alternating stylized leaves and circles, the body with a band of geometric decoration on a matted ground, the rim with an egg-and-dart band below anthemion and fluting, the teapot with scroll spout issuing from anthemion on a fluted ground, the wood scroll handle socket formed as Minerva's head, the flat hinged cover with flower finial, the sugar bowl and cream jug with bifurcated scroll foliate handles terminating in a similar classical head, marked under bases and on cover--length of teapot 10 1/2in. (26.7cm.)
(gross weight 69 oz.) (3)
LONDON, 1806 AND 1810, MAKER'S MARK OF DIGBY SCOTT & BENJAMIN SMITH II
Comprising teapot, cream jug and sugar bowl; each of vase-shaped form, on spreading circular rim foot chased with alternating stylized leaves and circles, the body with a band of geometric decoration on a matted ground, the rim with an egg-and-dart band below anthemion and fluting, the teapot with scroll spout issuing from anthemion on a fluted ground, the wood scroll handle socket formed as Minerva's head, the flat hinged cover with flower finial, the sugar bowl and cream jug with bifurcated scroll foliate handles terminating in a similar classical head, marked under bases and on cover--length of teapot 10 1/2in. (26.7cm.)
(gross weight 69 oz.) (3)