Twenty-eight-piece Austrian .800 Silver Tea and Coffee Service

Description:

Twenty-eight-piece Austrian .800 Silver Tea and Coffee Service, Vienna, after 1922, maker's mark indistinct, perhaps "A·K(V)," each with slender paneled body, comprising teapot, coffeepot, creamer, water pitcher, and twelve each: coffee cups and undertrays with eleven ceramic liners, pitcher ht. 6 1/4 in., approx. 157.8 troy oz. total; together with an associated silver-plate kettle-on-stand with burner.
Estimate $800-1,200

In good overall condition with only minor surface wear abrasions, coffeepot and teapot lacking finials. Silver-plate kettle lacking finial, wear to plated surface in raised areas. Eleven ceramic liners, ten probably later, one with gold-washed rim.


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