ID 720649
Lot 79 | AN ELIZABETH II SILVER-GILT TABLE SERVICE
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
Twenty table spoons
Twenty-four table forks
Twenty-four dessert spoons
Twenty-four dessert forks
Twenty-four soup spoons
Twelve grapefruit spoons
Twelve ice-cream spoons
Twelve teaspoons
Twenty-four coffee spoons
Twenty-four mocha spoons
Twenty-four table knives, with steel blades
Twelve steak knives, with steel blades
Twenty-four cheese knives, with steel blades
Two cheese serving knives, with steel blades
Two carving forks and two carving knives, with steel blades
A small carving knife and fork, with steel blades
Two steels
A serving slice, with steel blade
Two cake slices, with steel blade
Twenty-four butter knives, silver-gilt blades
Twenty-four fish knives
Twenty-four fish forks
Twelve fruit knives
Twelve fruit forks
Twelve butter knives
Twelve hors d'oeuvres forks
Three serving forks
Three serving spoons
A fish serving knife and two fish serving forks
A pair of salad servers
Four sauce ladles
Eleven silver-gilt salt cellars, with detachable blue glass liners and spoons, eleven pepperettes, two butter dishes
together with: two silver-gilt mustard pots with detachable glass liners and spoons, and nine Christofle silver-gilt plated butter dishes
All in a brass-mounted fitted wood case with cabriole legs on paw supports, and a smaller rectangular wood case, the silver pieces marked on handles, tines and bowls
756 oz. 17 dwt. (23,542 gr.) weighable silver
Manufactur: | Asprey & Co. |
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Applied technique: | Gold ground |
Medium: | Silver |
Place of origin: | United Kingdom |
Auction house category: | Cutlery |
Manufactur: | Asprey & Co. |
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Applied technique: | Gold ground |
Medium: | Silver |
Place of origin: | United Kingdom |
Auction house category: | Cutlery |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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Phone | +44 (0)20 7839 9060 | |
Buyer Premium | see on Website | |
Conditions of purchase | Conditions of purchase |
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