Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 25th April 2018
Lot 876
Lord Kitchener of Khartoum
Estimate £6,000 - £8,000 | Hammer £16000
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Description
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.