42 - GEORGE GILL FOR REED & BARTON, AMERICA, A RARE 19TH CENTURY AESTHETIC MOVEMENT ‘NORDIC’ VARIATION FIVE PIECE SILVER PLATED TEA & COFFEE SET, CIRCA 1873

GEORGE GILL FOR REED & BARTON, AMERICA, A RARE 19TH CENTURY AESTHETIC MOVEMENT ‘NORDIC’ VARIATION FIVE PIECE SILVER PLATED TEA & COFFEE SET, CIRCA 1873 Comprising a teapot, coffee pot, samovar, sugar bowl and milk jug, each piece having stylised Nordic rune decoration to handle amongst a chased ground, repeating cartwheel upper band, majority having lids with stylised fluted dome surmounted by seated lion finial bearing shield, engraved Viking long boat within geometric oval cartouche to front, vacant oval cartouche to reverse, both cartouche sides decorated amongst various birds and fruit depictions, all raised upon four feet decorated with central floral rosette flowed upwards by three clitoria ternatea flowers, followed downwards with three Japanese aesthetic stemmed leaves amongst a chased ground, each marked for Reed & Barton and ‘2626’ to underside. (samovar h 39.5cmx w 23cm x d 23.5cm) N.B. Original Patent record seen on last image, Dorothy and Ivan Rainwater, American Silverplate, 1988, p. 109 Example of ‘2626’ selling at Christies Auction 1096, Lot 61, 29 MAY 2002: Important American Furniture, Silver, Prints and Folk Art Brooklyn Museum, Accession Number: 2007.62.4. Later variation ‘2629’.