Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Price Realized: $3,875 Includes buyer's premium
Heath & Middleton, London, 1901 in the manner of Christopher Dresser, comprising a teapot, coffee pot, two-handle sugar bowl, creamer, and kettle and stand (dated 1899), each of waisted form with engraved monogram and mounted with boar teeth handles, the pots with tooth finials each piece stamped 'JTH/JHM' for John Thomas Heath & John Hartshorne Middleton, with hallmarks together with a Heath & Middleton oval tray with pierced gallery and mounted with boar teeth handles, stamped 'JTH/JHM' with hallmarks: Birmingham, 1902 approx weight inclusive: 6,506 grams
From a Private Manhattan Collection
overall in good condition, minor wear consistent with age and gentle use, scattered breaks, losses, and cracks to teeth, break and loss to one chain lock of kettle warmer
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