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Topic: From where is this teaset?

t-bow

Posts: 1
Registered: Apr 2017

posted 04-16-2017 01:12 PM

Hello to the whole community.

I am a newcomer to your website, however not a newcomer to the antiques, though more focused on Asian pieces than silver.

I have been researching a silver and soft-metal inlays tea and coffee set.

Some of your may have already seen the long thread over it on the Facebook page devoted to Japanese antiques.

This set is comprised of:

1 coffee pot,
1 teapot,
1 cream jug,
1 sugar bowl,
1 tray.
- Silver + copper + brass (some say gold). Approx. total weight: 2700 g.
- Silversmith hallmark: M.S. Title hallmark: weevil (french for the imported pieces).
- Number under each piece: 981, 982, 983, 984 & 985 (so nothing to do with the silver but more with the model).
- Shapes / influences: double-gourd / calabash Japan or China / pomegranate Turkey / round shapes designs like japanese "mons" / cranes, dragons / soft-metal inlays like Japanese "mons" / what I believe to be jadeite jade finials.
- Tray's feet: L-shaped. Other pieces feet made the same appart and then soldered to the main piece (which apparently make it sure it could not be made in the USA as part of the "Aesthetic movement" and disconnect it from similar work by Tiffany).

As there is surprisingly no hallmark for the country of fabrication but a French import mark, I am now thinking French colony like Indochine / Vietnam?

Your expert / passionate knowledge would be highly welcomed!

Many thanks to you all in advance!

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