AN ITALIAN ELABORATE FOUR-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE-SERVICE, Milan, probably late 19th Century, comprising teapot, coffee-pot, sugar-bowl and cover and cream-jug, each compressed circular with waisted fluted neck, on raised foot chased and engraved with radiating palmettes above scrolling foliage above plain scalloped rim, the body chased with lobes between chased matted foliage, with leaf-capped scroll handle, part foliate and bird's head spout, the raised hinged cover engraved similarly to the foot, and headed by ?artichoke finial, (lacking ivory insulators)--the coffee-pot 10in. (25.4cm.) high, gross weight 103oz. (4)