A JAPANESE SIX PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE ON TWO HANDLED TRAY, the tray stamped MIYAMOTO SHOKO TOKYO and chop mark, the remainder with same chop mark, and a turtle enclosed by a triangle, the underside of the bases (excluding tray) engraved with date 1902, and script monogram, comprising tea kettle, stand and lamp, teapot, long necked coffee pot, two handled covered sugar bowl, cream jug and waste bowl, each compressed spherical with reeded corners, with finely punched ground, on rim foot, chased with broad frieze of flowering ruffled irises rising from watery ground, with frond and iris scroll handles to the coffee pot, sugar bowl and cream jug, the detachable cover with swirling irises with iris finial, the pots with part decorated scroll spout, the teapot and kettle with fixed overhead decorated handle, the kettle on conforming circular stand, each frond scroll support headed by flower, with decorated burner--tea kettle on stand over handle--13½in. (34.2cm.) high, the conforming oval tray engraved with same monogram, iris decorated border, the two frond handles issuing from border--length over handles 25½in. (64.7cm.), gross weight 225oz. (7)

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A JAPANESE SIX PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE ON TWO HANDLED TRAY, the tray stamped MIYAMOTO SHOKO TOKYO and chop mark, the remainder with same chop mark, and a turtle enclosed by a triangle, the underside of the bases (excluding tray) engraved with date 1902, and script monogram, comprising tea kettle, stand and lamp, teapot, long necked coffee pot, two handled covered sugar bowl, cream jug and waste bowl, each compressed spherical with reeded corners, with finely punched ground, on rim foot, chased with broad frieze of flowering ruffled irises rising from watery ground, with frond and iris scroll handles to the coffee pot, sugar bowl and cream jug, the detachable cover with swirling irises with iris finial, the pots with part decorated scroll spout, the teapot and kettle with fixed overhead decorated handle, the kettle on conforming circular stand, each frond scroll support headed by flower, with decorated burner--tea kettle on stand over handle--13½in. (34.2cm.) high, the conforming oval tray engraved with same monogram, iris decorated border, the two frond handles issuing from border--length over handles 25½in. (64.7cm.), gross weight 225oz. (7)

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