A late 19^th century Anglo – Indian unmarked silver three-piece tea service, Lucknow circa 1890

Raj period, comprising a teapot, milk jug and a sugar bowl. Coriander flower pattern, each with flat chased decoration below a palmette border, the base underside with a band of stylised leaves. The collet foot of the milk jug with engraved trailing ferns. The teapot with a curved spout opposite a chased scroll handle with cobra head terminals, leading to a hinged domed lid surmounted by a chased model of an elephant wearing a howdah cloth. The milk jug with a similar serpent handle, the milk and sugar with a gilt interior. (3)

Teapot length – 22 cm / 8.75 inches

Sugar bowl diameter – 9 cm / 3.6 inches

Weight – 682 grams / 21.93 ozt

A teapot of this exact form and pattern illustrated from the Paul Walter Collection in Wilkinson, W., (1999)., Indian Silver 1858-1947: Decorative Silver from the Indian Sub-Continent and Burma Made by Local Craftsmen in Western Forms. London, Wynyard R T Wilkinson, p. 133, fig. 223,