An important Indian Colonial gold and silver four piece tea and…
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An important Indian Colonial gold and silver four piece tea and coffee service. The service in the style of an English Victorian design, manufactured of high grade silver with solid gold pierced embellishments, diamonds, enamel work and with turned ivory ball feet. The base of the silver pots are stamped 'D.C. 90', likely a makers stamp and 900 grade of silver. The gold embellishments to the upper rim collars, handle mounts, spouts and lid plates are testing between approximately 9ct and 22ct. The gold base mounts are testing 22ct and carry a 22C struck stamp., each piece has an Arabic script crest, set with old cut diamonds, gold and enamel work. Approximate tea service total weight 3997grams. total approximate 22ct gold base mounts estimated weight below (less the weight of the ivory feet). These base mounts are easily removable. coffee pot gold base mount 22ct 286.2grams tea pot gold base mount 22ct 262.7grams sugar bowl gold base mount 22ct 173grams creamer gold base mount 22ct 125.7grams total base 22ct gold mount weight 847.6grams to this can be added the upper gold mounts and the significant silver weight. Height 28 cm (coffee pot)

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  • Manner of .... / Style of ..... - A cataloguing term where the item, in the opinion of the cataloguer is a work in the style of the artist, craftsman or designer, possibly of a later period.
  • Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.

    The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910.
  • Ivory - Ivory is a hard white material that comes from the tusks of elephants, mammoth, walrus and boar, or from the teeth of hippopotamus and whales. The ivory from the African elephant is the most prized source of ivory. Although the mammoth is extinct, tusks are still being unearthed in Russia and offered for sale.

    Ivory has been used since the earliest times as a material for sculpture of small items, both in Europe and the east, principally China and Japan.

    In Asia ivory has been carved for netsuke, seals, okimono, card cases, fan supports, animals and other figures and even as carved tusks.

    In the last 200 years in Europe ivory has been used to carve figures, for elaborate tankards, snuff boxes, cane handles, embroidery and sewing accessories, in jewellery and as inlay on furniture. Its more practical uses include being used for billiard balls, buttons, and a veneers on the top of piano keys.

    The use and trade of elephant ivory have become controversial because they have contributed to Due to the decline in elephant populations because of the trade in ivory, the Asian elephant was placed on Appendix One of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), in 1975, and in January 1990, the African elephant was similarly listed. Under Appendix One, international trade in Asian or African elephant ivory between member countries is forbidden. Unlike trade in elephant tusks, trade in mammoth tusks is legal.

    Since the invention of plastics, there have been many attempts to create an artificial ivory
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    The object could be considered important because it is by a famous designer or maker, has been shown at a major exhibition, is of exquisite workmanship, is rare or is a "one-off", was made for an important patron, and so on.

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