Victorian five-piece tea and coffee set on tray : 12 results priced between £1,000.00 and £15,000.00

The plain portion of the body is embellished to one side with a bright cut engraved crest depicting issuing out of flames an arm couped at the elbow erect, holding in the hand an eagle's leg erased at the thigh.

With shell and scroll border, on four scroll feet; also an Edwardian silver two-handled tray, Birmingham, 1905, with shell and scroll border and 4 scroll feet; all similarly engraved with vacant rococo cartouches

Each piece of this impressive tea and coffee service is fitted with an opposing scroll handle embellished with bright cut engraved decoration and fluted decorated sockets.

Of fluted can shaped with bright-cut floral swag decoration, the straight spouts with scroll handles, the hinged covers with ivory pineapple finials, comprising; tea pot, coffee pot, sugar bowl, milk jug and waiter, crested and engraved IW to GSB , height of coffee pot 22cm , weight combined 85oz .

The body of each piece is embellished with two bands of chased scrolling leaf and flower decoration incorporating a vacant circular cartouche to either side.

Each piece is further ornamented with bright cut engraved foliate garlands and an oval cartouche which displays a shield shaped tri-floral crest surmounted with a visored tri-floral helmet.

The arms and crest are those of Barneby quartering Lutley with Bulkeley in pretence, for John Barneby (1757-1817) of Brockhampton, co. Herefordshire and his wife Elizabeth (d.1833), daughter and sole heir of Robert Bulkeley of Bulkeley, Cheshire. The service was almost certainly a gift in honour of their marriage held at St. George's, Hanover Square on the 17th of July, 1792. John Barneby was High Sheriff for the County of Herefordshire in 1797. (7)

Of asymmetric simulated bark form, each piece applied with prunus blossom sprays, the pots with ivory insulators, the oval tray/salver engraved with two birds perched on prunus branches, the rim applied with similar decoration, weight 148.5oz . (6)

To the centre of each piece there is an impressive broad band of bright cut engraved decoration depicting Roman soldiers, robed men, horses, elephants and slaves, onto a matted background.

comprising kettle, hot water pot on stand with burner, sugar bowl and milk jug, each piece of flared cylindrical form, engraved with scrolling bands of flowering foliage, total weight 76oz .

The teapot, coffee pot, cream jug and sugar bowl, each of fluted circular form on foliate feet, the panels engraved with a formal border of anthemions and geometric motifs on a trellis background with cast flower finials, weight 80oz .

Comprising; a teapot, coffee pot, sugar basin with lid, a smaller basin without lid, a spoon and an oval tray, all profusely decorated with an allover floral and foliate pattern, all on four plain feet, the spouts with hinged flat caps, the tray with decorated border the centre with presentation inscription, weight 74.2oz .