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A CONTINENTAL SILVER SEVEN-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE AND TRAY
CIRCA 1880
In the Empire style, comprising a tea urn, coffee pot, hot-water jug, cream jug, covered sugar bowl, two candy dishes and a tray; The ovoid bodies each on three hoof supports terminating in acanthus and lion masks, with foliate scroll mid-rim on a matted ground, a band of acanthus at the shoulder and applied with flowerheads at the neck; the tea urn on incurved base with similar foliate scroll rim, raised on three claw-and-ball supports, the straight spout with an animal head and bird form handle, the foliate scroll loop handles issuing from female masks and terminating in birds, the neck with acanthus border and applied coat-of-arms, the domed cover with gadrooned rim and bud finial; the coffeepot, hot-water jug and cream jug each with ebonized handle, the hot-water jug and cream jug with gadrooned border and hinged domed cover with flower finial, the coffeepot with acanthus scroll spout terminating in an animal head, with acanthus border, the hinged domed cover with gadrooned rim and bud finial; the sugar bowl with two foliate scroll loop handles issuing from female masks, the domed cover with gadrooned rim and applied with flowerheads, with bud finial; the candy dishes with two bird form handles; the tray oval raised on form claw-and-ball feet, with similar foliate scroll rim, with an elaborate pierced gallery with winged lions, the two foliate scroll handles issuing from female masks, with wood base, struck with Austrian import marks overstriking unidentified marks--height of tea urn 17¼in. (43.5 cm.)
(gross weight excluding tray 202 oz.) (8)
CIRCA 1880
In the Empire style, comprising a tea urn, coffee pot, hot-water jug, cream jug, covered sugar bowl, two candy dishes and a tray; The ovoid bodies each on three hoof supports terminating in acanthus and lion masks, with foliate scroll mid-rim on a matted ground, a band of acanthus at the shoulder and applied with flowerheads at the neck; the tea urn on incurved base with similar foliate scroll rim, raised on three claw-and-ball supports, the straight spout with an animal head and bird form handle, the foliate scroll loop handles issuing from female masks and terminating in birds, the neck with acanthus border and applied coat-of-arms, the domed cover with gadrooned rim and bud finial; the coffeepot, hot-water jug and cream jug each with ebonized handle, the hot-water jug and cream jug with gadrooned border and hinged domed cover with flower finial, the coffeepot with acanthus scroll spout terminating in an animal head, with acanthus border, the hinged domed cover with gadrooned rim and bud finial; the sugar bowl with two foliate scroll loop handles issuing from female masks, the domed cover with gadrooned rim and applied with flowerheads, with bud finial; the candy dishes with two bird form handles; the tray oval raised on form claw-and-ball feet, with similar foliate scroll rim, with an elaborate pierced gallery with winged lions, the two foliate scroll handles issuing from female masks, with wood base, struck with Austrian import marks overstriking unidentified marks--height of tea urn 17¼in. (43.5 cm.)
(gross weight excluding tray 202 oz.) (8)