A George IV four-piece compressed moulded circular tea and coffee service chased overall with spiralling acanthus leaves and engraved with crests, each with an applied shell and scrolling foliate everted rim, the coffee pot on a foliate-chased domed circular foot and with a leaf-chased rising curved spout, leaf-capped scroll handle and chased domed hinged cover with cauliflower finial, the teapot, the gilt-lined sugar basin and the gilt-lined milk jug on floral and foliate-capped beaded shell feet, Rebecca Emes and Edward Barnard, London 1823 and 1824 - height of coffee pot 9½in., 83.75oz.See Back Cover Illustration