Chinese export silver tea and coffee service by Tuck Chang & Co.

Consisting of a teapot, coffee pot, creamer, and sugar bowl with cover, along with six matching teacups and saucers, this superb silver tea and coffee service was made in China in the late nineteenth century/early twentieth century by Tuck Chang & Co., the Chinese jewerly and silver company based at 67 Broadway, Shanghai.

All of the pieces in this exceptional set are applied with cranes and chickens, and placed amongst flowers and foliage. They feature bamboo form handles, finials, and spouts, and are all marked throughout for Tuck Chang, Shanghai. Pieces such as these, with their fine baluster bodies, engraved with various Oriental scenes, motifs, and symbols, proved highly popular in the late nineteenth century, and Chinese export works in particular are of a quality and beauty rarely seen in European pieces of the same period.

Milk jug: height 8cm, width 14cm, depth 10cm
Coffee pot: height 25cm, width 24cm, depth 14cm
Total weight: 3,446 grams