AN ITALIAN FOUR-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE-SERVICE, probably late 19th Century, comprising teapot, two-handled covered sugar-bowl (compressed circular), coffee-pot and cream-jug (vase-shaped), each on circular spreading foot, with chased tongue-and-dart border to rim and foot rim, the bone loop handles with foliate join, the detachable slightly raised cover headed by bud finial, the pots with bird's head spout--the coffee-pot 10in. (25.4cm.) high, gross weight 74.5oz.