THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A PARIS TEA AND COFFEE-SERVICE in the early 19th Century style, painted en grisaille with scenes from Aesop's Fables within gilt rectangular cartouches chased with short lines and with script titles below, the grounds with radiating claret and gilt stripes, the saucers with yellow wells painted en grisaille with bouquets and the borders, handles, spouts and conical finials with rich burnished gilding, comprising:
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A PARIS TEA AND COFFEE-SERVICE in the early 19th Century style, painted en grisaille with scenes from Aesop's Fables within gilt rectangular cartouches chased with short lines and with script titles below, the grounds with radiating claret and gilt stripes, the saucers with yellow wells painted en grisaille with bouquets and the borders, handles, spouts and conical finials with rich burnished gilding, comprising:
A footed oviform coffee-pot and cover with a serpent spout (minute chip to flange of cover)
A similar teapot and cover (minute chip to flange of cover)
An oviform milk-jug
A footed tapering cylindrical sugar-bowl and cover moulded with two gilt masks
Twelve cylindrical cups and saucers
gilt B marks, 20th Century
A footed oviform coffee-pot and cover with a serpent spout (minute chip to flange of cover)
A similar teapot and cover (minute chip to flange of cover)
An oviform milk-jug
A footed tapering cylindrical sugar-bowl and cover moulded with two gilt masks
Twelve cylindrical cups and saucers
gilt B marks, 20th Century