4-piece 1st Standard Art Deco French silver tea set

4-piece 1st Standard Art Deco French silver tea set

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Four-piece first quality French silver (.950) tea set from the Art Deco era and comprising a silver teapot, hot water pot, milk jug and sugar bowl and lift-off cover. Demonstrating typical traits of Art Deco design, the two pots and sugar bowl feature stepped collars above their octagonal bodies, and have ebonised wood handles and finials.

The teapot and hot water jug are fitted with hinged covers and the water jug could usefully double up a coffee pot. Altogether a very stylish silver tea service.

Art Deco is one of the first truly international styles is a style of design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Its name is short for Arts Décoratifs and combined modern styles with fine craftsmanship plus expensive and rare materials such as ebony and ivory.

Dimensions:

Height 165 mm / 6 34"
Width 225 mm / 9 "
Year

c1930

Place

Paris

Condition

Excellent

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