Silver, Early Spoons & Collectors' Items - 25th April 2006

Lot 381

A late Victorian silvergilt Bacchanalian pattern dessert service

Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £6400

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Description

A late Victorian silvergilt Bacchanalian pattern dessert service, for eighteen place settings: dessert spoons dessert forks dessert knives (loaded handles) and six serving spoons a pair of grape shears a cream ladle and a sugar sifter ladle all by J Wakely and F.C. Wheeler, London, 1891, except the sugar sifter - by Messers Lias, London, 1874, contained in a fitted, four drawer brass inlaid coromandel cabinet, the case 13in (33cm) high, 113oz weighable (63).