A GERMAN FOUR PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE, maker's mark of Wilkens, comprising teapot, coffee pot, covered cream jug and bail handled, open, sugar basin, each tub form with domed bases chased with radiating palmettes with foliate pendent finial, motif repeated on raised hinged cover, on four ram's mask headed long legged hoof supports, the masks flanked by flat chased Vitruvian scroll and trefoil band, coat of arms within ermine mantling, coronet abobe, with chased acanthus to shoulder, with high scroll decorated spout, the part foliate angular handle inset with beaded bud, the cover topped by acanthus bud finial, the coffee pot--10½in. (26.6cm.) high, gross weight 92oz. (4)

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A GERMAN FOUR PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE, maker's mark of Wilkens, comprising teapot, coffee pot, covered cream jug and bail handled, open, sugar basin, each tub form with domed bases chased with radiating palmettes with foliate pendent finial, motif repeated on raised hinged cover, on four ram's mask headed long legged hoof supports, the masks flanked by flat chased Vitruvian scroll and trefoil band, coat of arms within ermine mantling, coronet abobe, with chased acanthus to shoulder, with high scroll decorated spout, the part foliate angular handle inset with beaded bud, the cover topped by acanthus bud finial, the coffee pot--10½in. (26.6cm.) high, gross weight 92oz. (4)

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