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Tea service
(1817-1819)
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr Raymond Nash, 1972
- Gallery location
- Not on display
About this work
This tea service by Edward Farrell is an example of chinoiserie silver of the English Regency period. In the years immediately following the Napoleonic wars in the eighteenth century, the Rococo style was viewed as a welcome reminder of the splendours of the ancien régime and was revived with gusto. The decoration of this tea service combines rococo and chinoiserie elements but is larger in scale, more robust in ornament and coarser in execution than an eighteenth-century example might be.
Artwork Details
(b) 11.9 × 17.3 × 12.6 cm (sugar bowl)
(c) 11.9 × 15.2 × 9.7 cm (jug)
punched in handle l.c.: (...illeg.) ·H (queen's head) (lion passant)
(b) punched (diagonally) in rear u.c.: E·F
punched in rear u.c.: (lion passant) (crowned leopard's head) c (king's head)
(c) punched near handle in rear u.l.: E (lion passant) (crowned leopard's head) C (king's head)
Gift of Mr Raymond Nash, 1972
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited