Show early silver highly ornamented the eighteenth century was a domestic period in england and the silversmiths liehs turned their attention especially to articles for the home every imaginable article both large and small was made many of thes according cc to ta a writer in the Us los angeles times permitted the most elaborate ornamentation in which the silversmiths indulged in their fancy tea coffee and chocolate had now become established in the social life of the nation and the silversmiths profited thereby the first teapot is said to have been made during du ring the reign ot of queen anne |