A SILVER SIX-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**
A SILVER SIX-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**

MAKER'S MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, 1881

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A SILVER SIX-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**
Maker's mark of Gorham Mfg. Co., Providence, 1881
In the Persian taste, comprising kettle on stand with burner, coffee pot, teapot, covered sugar bowl, cream jug and waste bowl; each shaped square, on circular foot, the lower body lobed, each lobe chased with a shell, the upper body repouss and chased all over with flowers and foliage on a textured ground, the handles with ivory insulators and spouts realistically formed as bamboo entwined with leaves, the hinged flat-domed covers spot-hammered and with braid border, surmounted by a lobed finial, the bases engraved with monogram MLB, marked under bases
The kettle on stand 12in. high; gross weight 144oz.
Gorham Mfg. Co. (6)

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