A three-piece silver tea service
Apparently unmarked, possibly Belgium, circa 1825
Comprising a teapot, a milk jug and a sugar bowl, each facetted, the teapot boat-shaped, with shaped facetted spout, the shaped wooden handle with silver inlay, foliate bands, the hinged moulded cover with openworked gallery and silver-mounted wooden finial, the milk jug vase-shaped, on domed base with foliate bands, with shaped reeded handle and pointed helmet-spout, the sugar bowl on tripod base centred by bud, the three feet with Egyptian caryatides, the circular body with foliate bands, the domed facetted cover with cockerell finial
26cm. (10in.) high (sugar bowl)
1618gr. (3)
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Please note that this lot is below legal alloy
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