A FRENCH SILVER-GILT MOUNTED LIQUEUR SET, comprising a pair of vase-shaped jugs and twelve liqueur cups with glass liners, the jugs each on shaped-circular base chased with foliage within strapwork panels on a matted ground and with reed and tie border, with leaf-capped foliate scroll handle and hinged cover with laurel wreath finial, the mounts pierced and chased with ribbon-tied foliate scrolls, floral swags, urns, and pine cones, the neck mount engraved with a monogram within ribbon-tied laurel swag cartouche, the liqueur cups similarly pierced and engraved, late nineteeth century, maker's mark VB, a mullet above and below