David Garrick's silver tea and coffee service

John Young (active1773 -)

V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum)

1733 - 1734

Service bearing the arms of Mr & Mrs Garrick. It consists of a tea-urn, coffee pot, teapot, two ewers, and two sugar baskets. Similar in style to the vertically banded neo-classical products of Wedgwood.

• Medium: silver
• Art Fund Grant: £2000 ( Total: £4,950)
• ArtFunded in: 1973
• Vendor: N.Bloom & Son

Provenance

Probably commissioned for his house in the Adelphi, which he was furnishing in 1772. David Garrick and Mrs Garrick until 1822; the Solly family; privaite collection, USA.

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