LARGE SILVER COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE WITH TRAY

LARGE SILVER COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE WITH TRAY

LARGE SILVER COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE WITH TRAY.

Kollin, Erik August. 28.12.1836 Pohja - 16.07.1901 St. Petersburg.

Date: 1891.
Technique: Silver, wood, root wood.
Description: Comprising a coffee pot, tea pot, sugar bowl and lid, milk jug and large, rectangular tray
with burl wood top. Each with a conical base ring and conical body. The two jugs with
hinged, correspondingly shaped lids and bud finials. The rims accentuated with beading and
above the rims wide engraved decorative bands with stylised acanthus and almond-shaped
medallions.
Weight: Ca. 2840g.
Measurement: Tray: 82x53,5/ height of the jug 27,5/22,5/sugar bowl and lid 18/milk jug 12cm.
Mark: Inspection mark St. Petersburg with 1891 and fineness 84 (1890-96, Goldberg No.1221), Maker's mark Erik August Kollin (from 1868, ibid. No.1451).

Explanations to the Catalogue

Erik August Kollin
Russia
Silver
19th century