Description
An elegant solid sterling silver water Urn or Samovar. This was made popular with the introduction of tea drinking, where the Samovar would sit on the drawing table and hot water from it added to teacups with freshly mixed green and black tea leaves. There would be a mote spoon used to stir the tea and allow it to brew. The other end of the mote spoon would be used to remove any recalcitrant leaves when the tea was being drunk. This is a spectacular vase shaped urn made in 1802 by the silver maker Richard Crooke of London. The Samovar is 32 cm high by 22 cm wide and weighs a healthy 895 grams.
