A 19th century Georgian vermeil cased set of  sugar vase with  cover, spoons and pin.    Extraordinary and richly gilt, heavy cast, embossed featuring foliate scrolls,  leaves and flowers around four cartouches centered by shells.

This antique  sugar covered vase, has a circular baluster form The cover surmounted by a cast flower finial.

The exquisite artwork  is enriched by engraved and chiseled ornamentation, a continuous alternation of shadows and lights, of smooth, shiny surfaces and matt  chiseled surfaces.

Original interior gilding.

1836 London, with maker’s mark for Richard William Atkins & William Nathaniel Somersell active from 1827 and 1836. The covered sugar bowl weighs 556 grams and measures 16,5 cm -height-  by 12,5 cm.

Pin and spoons are characterized by cast grapevine on scrolling leaves, weigh 288 grams,  1820 London, with maker’s mark for Edward Farrell  (1779 -1850) . Only one spoon has been realized in London a bit later 1827/28.

The set is cased in an elegant,  octagonal mahogany box with lid, complete with working lock and brass handle with Tho.s Allen Poynder N. 6  engraving.

Inside the lid we find the label Catchpole & Williams Silversmiths and Jewellers n. 120, Regent Street.

Thomas Henry Allen Poynder, owner of the famous Hartham Park estate, the Georgian villa in Wiltshire, England, near Corsham, from which the artifact supposedly originates.

The set comes from a private collection in Milan and is in good condition; we just repaired the lock of the mahogany case, made the key, repaired some veneer detachments and  polished the case.

The numbering engraved on the case may suggest that this set was aligned with teapots, coffee makers or tea caddies with which these elaborate accessories were generally created together.

Edward Farrell registered his first mark in London, 1813.  Silversmith and retailer for the Duke of York, Farrell experimented unusual designs after the Renaissance and Baroque, as well as in the most popular Rococo revival. The remarkable silver gilt candelabrum displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum and featuring Neptune riding a seahorse is a significant example of Farrell’s creativity and skills. It was part of a large scale garniture ordered by the Duke of York probably around 1819.