Lord Kitchener of Khartoum

Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, a fine French silver-gilt and mother-of-pearl dessert service for thirty,

by Robert Linzeler, Paris circa 1910,

comprising: dessert knives, forks and spoons, the tapering handles applied with foliate scroll mounts and inset with a 'K' below a Viscount's coronet, the reverse of the bowls and three pronged tines with a plain rat-tail, in a fitted suede lined wooden case, the hinged cover with a carrying handle and initialled, length of spoon 18cm. (90)

Provenance: Lord Kitchener and thence by descent to the present owner.

This set would have been commissioned between 1902, when he was made a Viscount, and 1914, when he was raised to an Earl.