Three-Piece Coffee Set
Maker
Andrew Fogelberg
CultureEnglish
Date1775
MediumSilver | Glass
DimensionsOverall: 8 x 4 1/2 in. (20.3 x 11.4 cm)
InscribedSugar Basket: fully marked on foot rim with the Ffolkes family arms engraved in a medallion just below the rim and their crest in the same position on the opposite side.
Credit LineMuseum purchase with Funds Provided Anonymously by a Member of the Mowbray Arch Society
Object number92.40.3
Not on view
DescriptionSilver sugar basket with a glass liner. The body of the sugar basket flares out from the applied foot which is decorated with chased acanthus leaves. The same leaves decorate the body just above the foot and the rim and applied bail handle are beaded. The same body decoration of swags of laurel leaves and Ram's heads with two medallions (front and back) one with the Ffolkes arms and the other with the Ffolkes crest. The liner is made of blue glass.Published ReferencesGAZETTE DES BEAUX-ARTS, No. 1502 (March 1994), mentioned p. 87. Mark A. Clark, "A George III English Coffee Set,"_The Chrysler Museum Journal_ 1 (1994): 32.
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