An early Victorian Irish three-piece tea service

An early Victorian Irish three-piece tea service
of melon-fluted form and on shell and scrolling foliate feet, the teapot with fluted leaf-capped rising curved spout, scroll handle and domed hinged cover with melon finial, the milk jug and sugar basin with shell and C-scroll everted rims and foliate and berry-decorated scroll handles, Richard Sawyer, Dublin 1840 - height of teapot 6½in. (16.50cm.), 52.50oz.
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