A Victorian four-piece oval tea and coffee service decorated with lion's mask and paw columns joined by foliate swags and with friezes of stiff foliage beneath, each engraved with a crest, motto and monogram, the teapot and coffee pot with foliate and flute-decorated rising curved spouts, similar-decorated covers, ebonised wood scroll handles and fluted oval wood finials, the milk jug and sugar basin gilt-lined, Frederick Elkington, Birmingham 1880 and 1882 each engraved with a diamond registration mark - height of coffee pot 9½in, 70.75oz. gross. (4)