Museum Collections
Luce Center
Miniature tea service
Object name
Miniature tea service
Date
1905/06-1908/09
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
Teapot: 1 3/4 x 2 1/8 x 7/8 in. (4.4 x 5.4 x 2.2 cm)
Silver Weight: 7.1 dwt (11 g)
Silver Weight: 1.9 dwt (3 g)
Silve
Description
Silver miniature tea service including a teapot, kettle-on-stand, creamer, sugar bowl, tray and two spoons; each piece of hollowware has an oval body with gadrooning around the lower half; kettle and teapot have concave shoulders, domed lids with gadrooning around the top and ball finials; all but the kettle, which has a bail handle, have squared strap handles; wooden base tray has galleried sides with ball feet and loop handles; two spoons with down-turned double-swell fiddle handles with a long mid-rib, chamfered shoulders and pointed elliptical bowls, handles engraved, "C K" in script; maker's marks stamped on the hollowware.
Credit Line
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number
1937.1585a-h
Marks
stamped: on the bases of the holloware: an anchor in a rectangle, a lion passant in a chamfered rectangle, "g" in a rectangle "C S & FS" in three conjoined ovals, and "Y"
Gallery Label
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.





