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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Shallow circular teapot, pale lemon silver gilt, standing on a low foot rim, curving to straight sides and to a low neck, flat hinged cover with grooved dome finial, rectangular handle, grooved and beaded, and with ivory insulating rings, short straight spout; the surfaces have a matt frosted texture with bright machine engraving in the Anglo-Japanese style with brocade ornament, birds, bamboo, ferns, flowers and fans, the cover with radiating lines in the manner of a Japanese mon.
Japanese-influenced designs became very fashionable from the 1870s and firms like Elkington made them available to a broad consumer market. Elkington & Co patented the electroplating process in 1840, which revolutionised the silver plate industry.
