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Highly important silver tea service by Alexander Dick, modelled…
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Sydney
Date:
4-Apr-2012
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Highly important silver tea service by Alexander Dick, modelled in the Georgian manner, each piece with acanthus capped scroll handles and a fluted squat body, engraved in the reserve of the teapot with a crest of a horned animal, all resting on ball feet. Marks: AD (anchor) D / N.S.W. Ref Jbh no 21 without castle mark!. Combined weight: 1485 grams. Length of teapot 27 cm. Provenance: Christie's 2/6/2004. Vizard Foundation. Notes: an almost identical teaset is in the Australian National Gallery collection from the Allen family Sydney. This example is illustrated in J B Hawkins vol I pp 66 & 67. A compendium of Scottish silver vol II R & J Dietert - in this recently published book of Scottish silver the husband and wife team comment 'in England a full tea service of the same year is relatively common. However, in Scotland, surviving tea services produced in the same year by the same maker are quite rare. Instead, pieces of a tea services were assembled one at a time by a family. It could sometimes take twenty years for a full service to be completely assembled, this May explain the variation to the decoration to the base.
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