Victorian Silver Teaset with William IV Silver Coffee Pot

A lovely Victorian silver teaset with a matching William IV silver coffee pot by the same maker.

The teaset consists of a teapot, milk/cream jug and sugar bowl. The pieces are round, bellied and the bodies are completely plain. Each has four scroll feet and scroll handles. The teapot has a hinged lid, with a detachable leaf and flower finial; as well as ivory insulators where the handle joins the body. The milk/cream jug and the sugar bowl have light original gilding (gold-wash) inside.

Interestingly, the service comes with an associated earlier silver coffee pot by the same maker. The body is identical in style to the teapot, but the feet have a slightly different design and the leaf and flower finial is also a different shape.

Obviously, this set is an original William IV pattern that continued to be made into the Victorian era by the same firm of silversmiths. The slight differences seen in the feet and the finial can be attributed to developments in design and changing tastes in the intervening twenty-six years. To be honest, it looks like a four-piece set and it all goes together very well.

This attractive three-piece Victorian silver teaset was made in 1860 by Edward Barnard & Sons of London -- one of the leading silversmiths of the nineteenth century. The matching William IV silver coffee pot was made by the same maker in 1834.