Details
Blossom pattern, designed by Georg Jensen circa 1905, comprising a teapot, coffee pot, creamer, and sugar bowl and cover, all ovoid and raised on three scroll feet, with carved wood part-fluted handles at right angles to spouts, the domed covers with blossom-form finials, the oval tray with openwork handles cast with blossoms, marked on undersides
814 in. (21 cm.) high, the coffee pot; 2218 in. (56.2 cm.) long, the two-handled tray
122 oz. 8 dwt. (3,807 gr.) gross weight
Literature
Fisher, Alison, Georg Jensen, Scandinavian Design for Living, Chicago, 2018, pp. 34-35 (a seven-piece example of this model), and p. 91 (an example of the teapot from this model, as well as Georg Jensen's original drawing).
Taylor, David and Jason Laskey, Georg Jensen: Holloware, the Silver Fund Collection, London, 2003, p. 39 (a five-piece example of this model).
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Other four-piece tea and coffee services in this pattern without trays have been sold at Christie's, New York, 21 April 2016, lot 29, and 27 October 2015, lot 29.

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