AN EXTENSIVE FRENCH SILVER AND SILVER-GILT FLATWARE SERVICE

WITH FRENCH GUARANTEE MARK FOR EXPORT (1879-1973), CIRCA 1900

Details

The rounded terminals with a border of berried laurel, applied to the reverse with a monogram, comprising:
Twenty-four tablespoons
Fifteen dessert spoons, gilt
Eighteen teaspoons
Eleven egg spoons
Sixteen ice cream spoons, gilt
Seventeen coffee spoons, gilt
Forty-eight dinner forks
Eighteen fish forks
Sixteen dessert forks
Thirty-five dinner knives
Eighteen fish knives
Nine cheese knives
Nineteen dessert knives, gilt
Two two-piece salad serving sets
Two two-piece fish serving sets
Two serving spoons
Two asparagus servers
A soup ladle
Two sauce ladles
Two cream ladles, gilt
Four ice cream slices, in two forms, gilt
Two shell-form berry spoons, gilt
Four hor d'ouerves servers
Two compote spoons, gilt
Two pierced sugar spoons, gilt
A pair of sugar tongs, gilt
In a fitted wooden chest
467 oz. 10 dwt. (14,539 gr.) weighable silver
Provenance

With Count Federico Zichy Thyssen (1935-2014).