Stock No. 7022	George II silver gilt cast rococo sugar nips
	Very elegant pair of George II silver gilt cast, rococo, sugar nips. Unmarked. Circa 1740. The sugar nips have been designed in an extremely attractive, rococo, style with shell-like decoration on the bowls and on the central pin and leaf decoration on the arms and the finger grips.

	Condition :-Excellent condition throughout. The original gilding shows hardly any sign of wear and the definition of the design on the nips is very good
	Circa :- 1740
	Size :- 5 inches (12.7 cm) long
	Weight :- 1.28 ozt (40 g)
	The earliest sugar nips date from about 1715, when they replaced the andiron type of sugar tong. By the 1770s, sugar nips were being rapidly replaced by sugar tongs but were re-introduced in the mid-nineteenth century. Mid-eighteenth century sugar nips were often made to go with sets of teaspoons and rococo sugar nips of various forms were often unmarked, as were also the teaspoons. These sugar nips have an unusually wide opening span and are not at all flimsy, so to-day they could very easily be used as a decorative pair of ice tongs.

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