Three-piece German .800 Silver Tea Service

Description:

Three-piece German .800 Silver Tea Service, late 19th/early 20th century, lacking maker's mark, teapot, covered sugar, and creamer, each urn-form body with leaf-tip registers raised on four legs joined by a female bust and terminating in hoof feet further mounted to a chamfered plinth, teapot ht. 10 3/4 in., approx. 35.0 troy oz.
Estimate $600-800

All with usage wear and rubbing to decoration. Teapot and creamer with replaced wood handles. Teapot with pin prick dents to spout, finial bent slightly. Creamer and sugar with scattered shallow dents to body. Covered sugar also lacking two nuts to joint between legs and plinth.


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