London 1874/75 by Robert Hennell IV
A Victorian sterling silver five-piece tea and coffee service

Comprising a teapot, a coffee pot, a milk jug, a twin handled sugar bowl, and a kettle on burner stamp, lamp deficient (1875). Each of compressed circular globular form upon a spreading domed circular foot with all with beaded and chased laurel rims throughout. The kettle with a curved spout and arched handle, hinged domed lid surmounted by a detachable cast artichoke finial, the stand formed as three goat’s legs with goat’s head mask to the junctions each adjoined by cast and chased hanging swags, the body attached to stand with two pins on retaining chains. The others similarly formed, the kettle, coffee pot, and teapot with ivory insulators to the handles. Each of the bodies with embossed ribbon tied laurel swags, a circular cartouche to each side, one engraved with initials BL below a European Counts coronet. The sugar and milk with gilt interiors. Each fully and part-marked throughout with trademark. (5)

Kettle height - 46 cm / 18.1 inches

Teapot length -24.8 cm / 9.75 inches

Weight – 5446 grams / 175.01 ozt

Ivory declaration: R3WFP2N3