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AN EXTENSIVE AMERICAN SILVER-GILT FLATWARE SERVICE

Lot 403
22.10.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 63 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 820055
Lot 403 | AN EXTENSIVE AMERICAN SILVER-GILT FLATWARE SERVICE
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$ 30 000 – 50 000
AN EXTENSIVE AMERICAN SILVER-GILT FLATWARE SERVICE

MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Chrysanthemum pattern, most engraved with script initial G, comprising:

Eight tablespoons

Thirty-six dessert spoons

Eighteen soup spoons

Twenty-four chowder/gumbo spoons

Twenty-three iced tea spoons

Twenty-four teaspoons

Eighteen ice cream spoons

Six egg spoons

Twenty-seven dinner forks

Twenty-seven luncheon forks

Twenty-five fish forks

Fourteen pastry forks

Six ice cream forks

Twenty-four oyster forks

Twenty-seven dinner knives

Twenty-seven luncheon knives

Twenty-eight fish knives

Six dessert knives

Ten fruit knives

Twenty-four butter spreaders

A large two-piece carving set

A smaller three-piece carving set

Two cold meat forks

A lobster pick

Two serving spoons

A sauce ladle

Three lemon forks

A salt spoon

A pickle fork

593 oz. 10 dwt. (18,458 gr.) weighable silver





Provenance

Tiffany & Co., New York, 1 December 1982.

Michael Barcun, San Francisco, 15 May 1995.

The Jerome Rapoport Collection of American Aesthetic Silver; Sotheby's, New York, 20 June 1996, lot 37.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 16 January 1998, lot 2237.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, new York, 15 January 1999, lots 36 and 37.

Variously assembled in part from the above by Ann and Gordon Getty.
Manufactur:Tiffany & Co.
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Gilding, Silver
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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