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A JAPANESE SILVER SIX-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE-SERVICE WITH MATCHING TWO-HANDLED TRAY, circa 1900, comprising teapot, coffee-pot, two-handled covered sugar-bowl, cream-jug, waste-bowl, tea-kettle on stand, and matching pair of sugar-tongs, each bombe, on rim foot, with hammered surface, the body applied with with continuous scaly dragons, with dragon form spout and handles, the raised cover chased and applied with dragon, the tea-kettle on circular stand with three dragon supports and entwined dragon overhead fixed handle--the coffee-pot 10½in. (26.6cm.) high; the border to the oval tray applied with high relief dragons, with bold dragon form handles--length over handles 25½in. (64.7cm.), 225.5oz.
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A JAPANESE SILVER SIX-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE-SERVICE WITH MATCHING TWO-HANDLED TRAY, circa 1900, comprising teapot, coffee-pot, two-handled covered sugar-bowl, cream-jug, waste-bowl, tea-kettle on stand, and matching pair of sugar-tongs, each bombe, on rim foot, with hammered surface, the body applied with with continuous scaly dragons, with dragon form spout and handles, the raised cover chased and applied with dragon, the tea-kettle on circular stand with three dragon supports and entwined dragon overhead fixed handle--the coffee-pot 10½in. (26.6cm.) high; the border to the oval tray applied with high relief dragons, with bold dragon form handles--length over handles 25½in. (64.7cm.), 225.5oz.