A 'Terre de Namur' black ground and silver mounted coffee service circa 1780

comprising a coffee pot and cover, a milk jug and cover, and a sugar bowl and cover; the baluster shaped body of the coffee pot with elongated lion mask spout, dog-tooth rims and flame with urn finial, connected with chains; the milk jug and sugar bowl with similar decoration

All pieces with some scratching, glazewear and minor imperfections, some silver mounts (slightly) loose; milk jug: tip pf handle chipped off, chip to the glaze at upper rim, one very fine hairline crack to the interior of the spout, small chips to the spout under the silver mounts; sugar bowl: cover missing ca. 3cm. of the dented silver rim mounts, small crack to one silver garland around the rim, minor glazewera to the interior, very fine hairline to the ground of the bowl; coffee pot: some minor imperfections to the glaze due to manufacturing process, imperfections to the inner rim, one larger glazeless imperfection inside the cover around the joint of the knob, one chain loose and with a short piece missing, lower joint of the silver mount of the handle missing. Further in overall good condition.
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