SILVER COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE IN ORIENTAL STYLE

SILVER COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE IN ORIENTAL STYLE

SILVER COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE IN ORIENTAL STYLE.

Froment-Meurice, Émile. Paris.

Date: 1866/67.
Technique: Silver, two times with inner-gilding.
Description: Consisting of coffee and tea pot, milk jug, sugar bowl and hot water pot on Rechaud.
On flat stand conical body with curved pipe spout. Double handle with trompe-l'oeil basket weave decor. Domed hinged lid with applied palmettes ornamentation and cone finial. Sides with geometric decor in relief. The original wooden box lined with leather. On it the company signet: Froment Meurice 372 rue St. Honoré.
Weight: Ca. 4301g.
Measurement: Height of the pots 23,5 /15,5 /35cm.
Mark: Paris guarantee of 950 standard silver (Rosenberg no.5880), maker's mark Froment Meurice (Émile Froment-Meurice, since ca. 1840), workshop mark Froment-Meurice.

Literature:
Exhib. cat.: Trésors d'Argent, Les Froment-Meurice, Paris 2003.

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Explanations to the Catalogue

Émile Froment-Meurice
Silver
19th century
Émile Froment-Meurice