A silver tea and coffee service, Matvei Gretchushnikov, Moscow, 1831

comprising a tea pot, coffee pot, covered sugar bowl and cream jug, the bodies with cast arched leaf friezes, anthemia foot rims, gilt interiors, bone handles and knops, 84 standard; together with a silver tray, oval, the pierced rim with engraved leaves and scroll rim, unrecorded maker's mark S.G (Cyrillic), St Petersburg, circa 1815, 84 standard

Very good condition. The handles of all pieces slightly loose. The lid of the tea pot lacking hinge pin. The interior gilding worn throughout, not to the silver. The lid of the sugar pot very slightly mishapen. The tea pot with a repaired hole to the base. One of the handles of the sugar bowl with a small round hole, perhaps original to the piece.
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