A Collector's Guide to Tea Silver, 1670-1900 |
Common terms and phrases
18th century Albert Museum American apostle spoons appeared assay office base became Birmingham body bright-cut Britannia caddy spoons canisters cartouche casters chased chinoiseries classical collectors copper craftsmen cream jug curved date letter decade domestic silver early examples electro-plated elegant embossed England engraved fashionable feet finial flat fluted foot foot-rim form of decoration gadrooning George George III Goldsmiths hall-marks hammered handle knop later leopard's head lion passant maker's mark manufacturers Matthew Boulton metal methods milk jugs mote skimmer motifs moulded ornament ornate outline oval pattern Paul de Lamerie pear-shaped pieces of tea pierced popular produced punched rococo scrolls shape Sheffield plate shell silversmiths slop bowl soldered sometimes sovereign's head spout stand stem sugar bowl sugar box sugar tongs tea and coffee tea equipage tea kettle tea pot tea service tea silver tea spoons tea urn Thomas Boulsover tray usually vessel Victoria and Albert Victorian