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AN AMERICAN SILVER-GILT TABLE SERVICE

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Auction dateClassic
09.02.2023 10:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 892315
Lot 119 | AN AMERICAN SILVER-GILT TABLE SERVICE
AN AMERICAN SILVER-GILT TABLE SERVICE

LATE 19TH CENTURY, GORHAM, MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, RI

Versailles pattern, engraved with various monograms, comprising:

Twenty-two dinner knives with stainless steel and plated blades; twenty-three dinner forks; twenty-five lunch knives with stainless steel and plated blades; twenty-two lunch forks; twelve fish knives, sixteen fish forks; twenty-one butter spreaders; twenty cocktail forks; twenty-one cake forks, nine salad forks; twenty-five teaspoons; twenty-four tablespoons; twelve dessert spoons; twelve iced teaspoons; ten cream soup spoons; twenty-eight bouillon spoons; fifteen grapefruit spoons; ten chocolate spoons; six demitasse spoons; six Swedish demitasse spoons of similar pattern; a four-piece carving set; two pairs of salad servers; a pea server; a cake knife with stainless steel blade; four large butter knives with stainless steel blades; two sauce ladles, marked on bowls or handles; together with a French silver-gilt flatware dessert part-service, mark of Charles-François Languedoc, Paris, circa 1880, comprising: eighteen knives; sixteen forks; and fourteen spoons, maker's mark overstriking another

9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm.) long and smaller

The Gorham service: 443 oz. 16 dwt. (13,805 gr.) weighable silver

The Languedoc service: 72 oz. 6 dwt. (2,249 gr.)







Provenance

The Gorham service: Sotheby's, New York, 4 October 2007, lot 23.

The Languedoc service: Sotheby's, New York, 23 October 2006, lot 56 (part).
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