A matched Victorian sterling silver tea and coffee service, the majority London 1879 by Samuel Smith (Goldsmiths Alliance)

Comprising a Coffee pot, teapot, twin handled sugar bowl and a milk jug (London 1837 by J&A Savory). Each of lobed circular ‘melonized’ form, raised on four anthemion and acanthus scroll bracket feet, moulded scalloped rims. The teapot and coffee pot with curved fluted anthemion capped spout opposite C scroll handles fitted with turned ivory insulators, the teapot handle with leaf calyx junction. The teapot and coffee pot with a hinged domed lid of conforming shape each surmounted by a detachable cast gourd and leaf calyx finials. The coffee pot with a removabel muslin filter ring. The milk jug with gilt interior, the sugar bowl with traces of a gilt interior. Each engraved with a crest of a tower. Each fully and part-marked to the lids, finials and handles, the muslin ring fully marked, the teapot, coffee pot and sugar bowl also stamped underneath ‘Goldsmiths Alliance Limited, Cornhill London. (4)

Coffee pot height – 26.6 cm / 10.5 inches

Teapot length – 29 cm / 11.5 inches

Weight – 2318 grams / 74.53 ozt