Highland Sheep Demitasse Coffee Set with Silver Spoons
Royal Worcester 'Highland Sheep' demitasse coffee set by Ernest Barker for six persons comprising six coffee cups & saucers, signed & dated 1898. Together with six English hallmarked sterling silver coffee spoons. London, 1923, maker Henry James Hulbert, weight, 71.5g. Condition, good to fair, hairline crack & discolouration to one cup
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- Firing Crack - A firing crack is a crack in a porcelain or stoneware item that occurs whilst the item is in the kiln.They are usually caused by faulty design, where one part is thicker than the surrounding area, and being thicker it cools more slowly, setting up a stress with the surrounding area. Firing cracks are not often seen on modern mass produced porcelain, as the damaged items are discarded during prooduction. However they are seen in earlier items and artisan-produced objects.
- Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
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- Barker, Ernest - Royal Worcester artists 31
- Royal Worcester (England), item types
