A Victorian sterling silver four-piece tea and coffee service, London 1891/93 by Charles Stuart Harris

Comprising a coffee pot, tea pot, milk jug and twin handled sugar bowl. Each of oval form with half-fluted decoration. The pots (1893) with hinged lids surmounted by fluted ebonised finials, the curved spouts opposite ebonised D section handles. Each engraved with a crest of a leopard's head affrontée with a fox in the mouth. Each fully and part-marked. (4)

Coffee pot height – 25 cm / 9.9 inches

Weight – 1538 grams / 49.45 ozt