Antique Royal Worcester Tea Set with Maple & Co Retailer
A Royal Worcester tea set, date code for 1917, retailed by maple & Co, comprising eleven cups and saucers, eleven cake plates, a cream jug, a sugar bowl and a larger plate, all decorated in gold with urns and classical motifs on a white and pink ground, diameter of large plate 9.06 in. Provenance: The property of a gentleman, Sydney.
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- Maple - Maple, native to North America, is a dense heavy timber from light to yellow-brown in colour. It has very little distincive graining unless it is one of the variants such as birds-eye maple or burr maple, so was not used extensively for furniture in 18th and 19th century, where cabinetmakers and designers preferred timbers with more distinctive features such as mahogany, walnut, rosewood and oak.
Birds-eye maple has a seres of small spots linked by undulating lines in the grain, is highly sough and is used as a decorative veneer. Burr maple has larger and irregular grain swirls than birds-eye maple.
This item has been included into following indexes:
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Royal Worcester (England), item types
- cruets & condiments 77
- cups & saucers/trios 369
- jugs & ewers 349
- plates 601
- tea pots and tea sets 68
- urns 439
