Title: Tea Time, Artist: Sergon, excellent condition. The medium is serigraph. Purchased on a Princess cruise in Jan 1999 through Princess Cruise Fine Arts.
24" x 34"
Hello, this item is a decorative limited edition serigraph titled Tea Time by the artist Sergon, distributed through Princess Cruises Fine Arts in 1999. The composition, a floral still life with porcelain, fruit, and table setting elements, follows a traditional European-inspired aesthetic adapted for the commercial print market. Sergon is known primarily within cruise line art sales contexts rather than the established secondary fine art market, and works sold through these channels are typically mass-produced limited editions rather than rare or museum-level prints. The certificate shown confirms it as a signed limited edition serigraph, but these editions are often large and widely distributed, which limits scarcity and long-term market growth.
From a market standpoint, prints sold through cruise galleries commonly resell at significantly lower values than their original purchase price, as the initial pricing often includes a strong retail markup tied to the cruise sales environment. Comparable Sergon serigraphs of similar size and subject generally trade between $100 and $300 USD on the secondary market, depending on condition and presentation. Given the good condition and framing, a fair market value would reasonably fall within this range, while the insurance value would be approximately $350 to $500 USD, reflecting replacement in a retail decorative context rather than a high-demand collector market.