Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks & The Age of Oak - 2nd October 2025
Lot 1058
CHARLES II SILVER GILT CUTLERY: TWO SETS, EACH COMPRISING A KNIFE, FORK AND SPOON
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500
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Description
CHARLES II SILVER GILT CUTLERY: TWO SETS, EACH COMPRISING A KNIFE, FORK AND SPOON
C.1680
each knife with cannon handle engraved with panels of feathered lozenges and a single flowerhead to cap, both with iron blade, one with cutler's mark, probably Ephraim How, the other replaced and marked by Garrard, C.1850, with Royal 'VR' cypher, one knife with a crowned 'T T' maker's mark, possibly for Thomas Townley, London, both forks and spoons with trefid ends, finely engraved foliage and mask to front of stem, similar engraving and vacant oval cartouche to reverse. Each spoon again with mark of 'T T' (6)
11.4cm knife, 9.9cm fork, 10.2cm spoon
Literature
For a virtually identical knife, fork and spoon see 'British Cutlery: An Illustrated History of Design, Evolution and Use' (2001), p. 95, fig. 58.