mark of Alexander Sturm, Vienna, 800/1000 standard silver, the teapot of simple oval form with reed and tie borders, part marked side hinged flush fitting cover with button finial and simple handle with cream-coloured insulators, stamped to the underside '90801', the two handled sucrier with gilded interior and friction fitting removable cover, stamped to the underside '94804' and high sided milk jug, stamped to the underside '94796' to match, along with the tray, of oval form, measuring 40 x 32cm, stamped to the underside '04879', 70.1ozt gross (4) Footnote: Alexander Sturm (1851-1915) was an ambitious silverworker who married the daughter of Vincenz Carl Dub, an already established Viennese silversmith and opened his own shop in 1883, trading as ‘Alexander Sturm, Dub's Eidam’ (Dub's son-in-law). His clients were of the high nobility and from the so-called ‘Vienna's second society’ (the rising bourgeoisie, industrialists, bankers, civil servants and high-ranking army officers). His business attracted the interest of artists of the Vienna Secession movement and of the Wiener Werkstätte. They commissioned artisans on a freelance basis and Sturm received many commissions from them which were marked with the trademark of the Wiener Werkstätte, the monogram of the designer and Sturm's initials - ‘A.St’ - instead of his usual ‘clover’ stamp as featured on these examples. Wiener Werkstätte closed its doors in 1932 and Sturm's firm closed in 1988, but it was relaunched by George Stradiot in 2008 under the name ‘Wiener Silber Manufactur’. Today their shop is based in the centre of Vienna, and they specialise in reproducing objects designed during the Viennese Jugendstil and Art deco periods and the 1930s, drawing on their archive of over 11,000 designs dating back to Sturm's original drawings of the late 1800s