An Elizabeth II modernist parcel gilt sterling silver three-piece coffee service, London 1984 by Christopher Nigel Lawrence (b. 1936)

Comprising a coffee pot, a milk jug, and a twin handled sugar bowl. Each of truncated conical form with a rounded base. The coffee pot with a gilt textured spout opposite a wooden handle with gilt textured junctions, a pull off gilt textured lid. The milk and sugar with gilt textured handles, also gilt interiors. Each fully marked and stamped 50/100 underneath. (3)

Coffee pot height – 17.7 cm / 7 inches

Weight – 689 grams / 22.15 ozt

Christopher Nigel Lawrence was born in 1936. Studied at the Central School of Arts & Crafts. Christopher established a small workshop in the garden of his home in 1968, but four months later opened a design studio and workshop at nearby Leigh-on-Sea. Galerie Jean Renet, a new gallery in Old Bond Street devoted to contemporary silver and jewellery held a large exhibition of his work in 1970. In 1973 The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths staged a one-man show to commemorate ‘five years of meteoric artistic and commercial development’.