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aykp20 Posts: 3 Registered: Aug 2005	posted 08-06-2005 07:12 PM [26-0589] Hi all, Would anyone know the name of this Tiffany tea service pattern? According to the hallmarks, it is Sterling from London in 1952. It belonged to my parents (both gone), and unfortunately they didn't tell me anything about it when they were alive. Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks, Steven Voight Gilbert, Arizona, USA IP: Logged
hello Posts: 200 Registered: Jun 2005	posted 05-20-2006 09:21 AM There is likely no known pattern name for this as it was manufactured by an English maker for Tiffany not by Tiffany. I would think someone might be able to come up with the name of the manufacturer for you though.(though not necessarily, I think sometimes older manufacturers are easier to look up because there are less of them) IP: Logged
akgdc Posts: 289 Registered: Sep 2001	posted 05-20-2006 10:02 AM As hello said, it is not likely that there is a pattern name for this set, but it is in the Georgian Revival style - specifically, it copies the 18th-century style known as George I (called this because it was popular during that king's reign, 1714-1727). The style is characterized by relatively plain, often pear-shaped forms whose beauty is in their graceful ogee lines. Although matched tea sets were not yet known, your tea kettle, bowl and milk jug (known as a "sparrow-beak" jug) resemble items one would have found on a wealthy English family's tea table in the 1720s. (The other items, from what I can see in the photo, are somewhat freer 20th-century adaptations of the style.) The George I style was carried over into many areas of the decorative arts, including furniture, and I think your handsome tea set would look especially fine if it were displayed on a George I tea table (which would be rectangular-topped, with S-curved cabriole legs to echo the lines of the tea set). In the 1720s, tea-drinking had only just become widespread in England, and an entire "tea culture" with its own rituals and apparatus developed, which has continued through various permutations to the present day. Georgian styles were "revived" many times in the 19th and 20th centuries, including after World War II, when (around the coronation of Elizabeth II and collapse of the Empire) more modern prewar styles gave way to a revival of conservative English tastes. [This message has been edited by akgdc (edited 05-20-2006).] IP: Logged
adelapt Posts: 418 Registered: May 2003	posted 05-20-2006 11:48 AM I think your set carries the maker's/sponsor's mark of Richard Comyns (see also the firm William Comyns). Am away from my refs at the moment. IP: Logged
PhilO Posts: 166 Registered: Jul 2004	posted 05-21-2006 04:51 AM Yes, RC is for Richard Comyns. Tiffany put their name on silver by several of the leading English silvermithing companies. I have a hot water pot from a tea service with the Tiffany stamp and the maker's mark of Wakely & Wheeler. This dates from 1920. Tiffany also had their own sponsor's mark which I have seen on London, Birmingham and Sheffield hallmarked silver dating from the 1930s to the 1970s: Phil IP: Logged
aykp20 Posts: 3 Registered: Aug 2005	posted 05-21-2006 04:39 PM thank you IP: Logged

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