Five-piece Portuguese .833 Silver Tea and Coffee Service

Description:

Five-piece Portuguese .833 Silver Tea and Coffee Service, Porto, mid-20th century, lacking or indistinct maker's mark, each urn-form with a central chased register of scrolls and floral sprays along waist, teapot, coffeepot, covered sugar, creamer, and tray, coffeepot ht. 11 1/4, tray lg. handle to handle 26 1/2 in., approx. 199.0 troy oz.
Estimate $1,200-1,800

Surface wear throughout. Coffeepot lacking insulators, small dent to neck. Teapot and covered sugar each with small area of wear through silver surface to body. Tray with usage wear abrasions to surface.


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