Haddon Place Plating Factory, Art Deco four-piece coffee and tea set

plater, electroplated silver, so called new silver, manufacture, Haddon Place, Canada, circa 1920, dimensions of teapots approx. 316 x 36 cm and 26 x 16 cm, sugar bowl approx. 8 x 10 x 10 cm, creamer 6 x 15 x 8 cm.

A striking and fully usable tea and coffee set from the oldest plateware and tableware factory in Canada, founded in 1880. Referring to traditional English designs, the set has been given a modern and fashionable expression in Art Deco style with its simplified and geometric forms, wavy lines and rounded vessel shapes. The bodies of the teapots, on low legs in the form of stylized tripods, with smooth surfaces decorated with rhythmic canneling and concave-convex forms, wooden handles, geometrized, hinged caps, arched and with a wooden handle.