GOMBERT & BIBOLLET (active 1913-1924), Coffee or tea set

consisting of a teapot - height 22.5 cm, width 24.5 cm, depth 13.8 cm; a two-piece sugar bowl with lid - height 17 cm, width 16.5 cm, depth 12.5 cm; a creamer - height 14 cm, width 11.5 cm, depth 8.5 cm.
Sterling silver 1 (950) hallmarked (state hallmark with Minerva's head and sample, goldsmith's mark of walking lion with monogram G&B in rhombus); weight 1339 g.
Paris, 1913-1924
Vessels supported on round, profiled feet, decorated with a godron half-shaft; half-spherical bodies framed by a godron half-shaft and tapered, under the upper edge decorated with stylized relief palmettes, profiled handles on the sides, decorated with shells, and at the base with leaves (in the imbricator, insulators made of ivory); the lids of the teapot and sugar bowl profiled, edged with a half-round godron, topped with a knob; the spout of the teapot in the form of a cannelled spout decorated with a shell; the spout of the creamer triangular.
Gombert and Bibollet were the successors of Alphonse Gombert (active 1896-1913); the company was run independently by Paul Bibollet from 1924 to1934.