A GEORGE III SILVER PART TABLE SERVICE IN A PAIR OF GEORGE III TULIPWOOD-CROSSBANDED FIGURED MAHOGANY KNIFE OR CUTLERY BOXES

Lot 112
25.05.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 112 | A GEORGE III SILVER PART TABLE SERVICE IN A PAIR OF GEORGE III TULIPWOOD-CROSSBANDED FIGURED MAHOGANY KNIFE OR CUTLERY BOXES
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
A GEORGE III SILVER PART TABLE SERVICE IN A PAIR OF GEORGE III TULIPWOOD-CROSSBANDED FIGURED MAHOGANY KNIFE OR CUTLERY BOXES

LONDON, WITH MARKS OF GEORGE SMITH, 1797, MICHAEL BARNETT, AND WILLIAM ELEY, WILLIAM FEARN AND WILLIAM CHAWNER, 1812; THE BOXES, LATE 18TH CENTURY, ONE SILVER MOUNT WITH MARK OF JOHN BROCKWELL, LONDON, 1797

Old English pattern, comprising:

Eleven table spoons

Twenty-four table forks, one silver-plated

Eleven dessert spoons

Twelve dessert forks

and with filled handles and of thread pattern:

Twenty-four table knives, with steel blades

Twelve fruit knives, with silver blades

most with a coat-of-arms, all fully marked

The boxes each with hinged sloping cover enclosing a boxwood and fruitwood chequer strung interior fitted for knives, forks and spoons, the ogee-shaped front mounts with white-metal ring-handle and escutcheon engraved with a lozenge-of-arms, on ogee bracket feet



The boxes: 15 in. (38.5 cm.) high; 9 1/4 in. (24.5 cm.) wide; 11 1/4 in. (28.5 cm.) deep

The arms in a lozenge are those of Hervey of Tiddington, co. Oxford, for Miss Barbara Hervey (1740-1813) of Chilton, the unmarried daughter and heir of George Hervey of Tiddington ( 1705-1774) and his first wife Penelope Chernock (1704–1743).





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