A FRENCH SILVER-GILT THREE-PIECE TEA SERVICE

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A FRENCH SILVER-GILT THREE-PIECE TEA SERVICE
MAKER'S MARK OF FOUQUET-LAPAR AND L & R, PARIS, LATE 19TH CENTURY, ALL RETAILED BY L. LAPAR

Comprising teapot, covered sugar bowl and cream jug; in the Empire taste, each vase form, chased with bands of stiff foliage, with bird's-head spout and Bacchic ring handles, engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked under bodies and on covers--height of teapot 5½in.(14cm.)
(gross weight 43oz., 1352gr.) (3)