Tea tray, cake stands, jam dish, sugar bowls, coffee pot and milk jug, Sugar box on pedestal, Empire sugar box of gold-plated silver. The box is chalice-shaped with a faintly arched lid. On the pedestal stands a wreath of spoon holders with 3 winged sphinxes supporting the baluster-shaped trunk. With crowned imperial monogram, sphinx (lion / woman), 'Sfinge' (Ripa), Martin Guillaume Biennais, Paris, c. 1817, silver (metal), gilding (material), ebony (wood), gilding, h cm × d cm × w 3494 gr h cm × w cm w cm h cm × w 17 cm

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Tea tray, cake stands, jam dish, sugar bowls, coffee pot and milk jug, Sugar box on pedestal, Empire sugar box of gold-plated silver. The box is chalice-shaped with a faintly arched lid. On the pedestal stands a wreath of spoon holders with 3 winged sphinxes supporting the baluster-shaped trunk. With crowned imperial monogram, sphinx (lion / woman), 'Sfinge' (Ripa), Martin Guillaume Biennais, Paris, c. 1817, silver (metal), gilding (material), ebony (wood), gilding, h cm × d cm × w 3494 gr h cm × w cm w cm h cm × w 17 cm

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