An oversize George I style silver seven-piece tea and coffee service, William Comyns & Sons Ltd., London, 1930/31

comprising: two tea pots, hot water pot, coffee pot, cream jug, sugar bowl and tea kettle on stand with burner; octagonal panelled form, the pots and kettle with composite handles and finials, engraved with a coat of arms

Works of Art from Cowdray Park and Dunecht House, Christie's at Cowdray Park, West Sussex, 13-15 September 2011, lot 338

Good clear marks. Tea kettle cover does not close flush. Light surface scratches. Good heavy gauge.
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The arms are those of Pearson impaling Cass for Annie, Dowager Viscountess Cowdray (1860-1932), daughter of Sir John Cass of Bradford, Yorkshire, who married Weetman Dickinson Pearson (1856-1927) in 1881. He was created a baronet in 1894 and raised to the peerage as Baron Cowdray of Midhurst, Sussex in 1910 and created Viscount Cowdray of Cowdray, Sussex in 1917. In 1932, the year of her death, the Dowager Viscountess Cowdray was awarded the Oder of the British Empire in recognition of her numerous benefactions, particularly in connection with hospitals and the nursing profession.