***** article 10 license applied for ***** GERALD BENNEY: A silver three-piece coffee service London 1975, underside impressed GERALD BENNEY LONDON (4)
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GERALD BENNEY: A silver three-piece coffee service
London 1975, underside impressed GERALD BENNEY LONDON
Coffee pot with pull-off polished cover, baluster form body with bark effect textured surface, polished spout, with ivory finial and handle, together with the cream jug and sugar bowl, with gilt interiors, with a pair of sugar tongs, by Brian Leslie Fuller, London 1977, stems with bark effect textured panels, height of coffee pot 21cm, weight total 43oz. (4)
Sold for £3,500 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • This comes with a copy of the original Gerald Benney headed purchase receipt dated 27th February 1975.
    Coffee pot pattern No.330.

    The teapot closely matching this coffee pot was sold in these rooms lot 161 on 25th May 2011.
    This teapot was sold with an invoice, teapot pattern No.300B.
    The vendor had commissioned Edward Barnsley to replace the original ivory handle and finial.

    Sold with article 10 CITES license.

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