A FRENCH FOUR PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE, maker's mark of Crosviller & Glachant, Paris, circa 1865, also stamped DUPONCHEL A PARIS, in the Persian taste, comprising: a coffee pot, teapot, covered sugar bowl, cream jug and a tea strainer, each baluster, flat chased overall with arabesques and stylized foliage on matted ground, with reeded mid-band, the neck with mid-band and stiff leaves above, the hinged tapering covers flat chased with similar decoration and with baluster finials, each engraved with a monogram within a strapwork cartouche--coffee pot 10in. (25.4cm.) high, gross weight 72oz. (5)

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A FRENCH FOUR PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE, maker's mark of Crosviller & Glachant, Paris, circa 1865, also stamped DUPONCHEL A PARIS, in the Persian taste, comprising: a coffee pot, teapot, covered sugar bowl, cream jug and a tea strainer, each baluster, flat chased overall with arabesques and stylized foliage on matted ground, with reeded mid-band, the neck with mid-band and stiff leaves above, the hinged tapering covers flat chased with similar decoration and with baluster finials, each engraved with a monogram within a strapwork cartouche--coffee pot 10in. (25.4cm.) high, gross weight 72oz. (5)

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A similar service by Louis Manant, presented by the Brazilian Imperial Princess Donna Isabel de Orleans to the Baroness of Loreto in 1868 was sold in these Rooms, November 17, 1994, lot 73.

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