Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 28th October 2015
Lot 397
A Victorian silver-gilt and parcel-gilt composite Bacchanalian pattern dessert service for fourteen
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £2600
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Description
A Victorian silver-gilt and parcel-gilt composite Bacchanalian pattern dessert service for fourteen,
the spoons by Henry Lias and James Wakely, London 1881, the knives and forks, by The Levesley Brothers, Sheffield 1881, the other pieces by various makers including The Lias Brothers, comprising: fourteen dessert spoons, the bowls with engraved decoration, fourteen dessert knives and forks, the blades engraved with ferns and butterflies, carved mother-of-pearl handles, plus a cream ladle, a sifting spoon, two fruit serving spoons, a pair of mother-of pearl handles serving knife and fork and another serving knife and fork, and two other fruit serving spoons, (loose), in a fitted wooden case, approx. weighable 44oz.