By Various Makers
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A magnificent, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver dessert service for twelve persons; an addition to our canteen of cutlery collection.
The pieces of this magnificent, antique Victorian sterling silver cutlery service for twelve persons have been crafted in a Quilted Kings shape.
Each piece of this Victorian dessert service in silver gilt is embellished with quilted ornamentation to the handle and stem.
The decoration to each handle incorporates a bordered oval cartouche to the terminal and embellished to the anterior surface with the contemporary engraved initials 'CMB'; the cartouche to the reverse remains vacant.
Each Kings-shaped handle is further ornamented with a paralleling rope twist decorated border, incorporating a feature knot motif to the terminal and drop/heel.
This Victorian dessert service in silver gilt consists of 55 pieces:
Basic Service:
12 dessert knives
12 dessert forks
12 dessert spoons
10 ice cream spoons
additional pieces:
1 sauce ladle
4 serving spoons
4 salt spoons*
The exceptional silver spoons and forks, in additional to the original dessert knives, have been crafted by the London flatware makers F B Thomas & Co (Francis Boone Thomas) and Francis Higgins II between 1863-1881.
This magnificent service benefits from solid silver gilt serving pieces made by Francis Boone Thomas of F B Thomas & Co in 1881.
Each piece of this exceptional antique Victorian dessert service retains the original gilding; this has some slight wear in keeping with age and in a sympathetic fashion.
These impressive examples of antique silverware are supplied in felt cutlery rolls; which not only protect the items in storage but significantly reduces tarnishing.
This dessert service is a segment of a more extensive canteen of cutlery which through time will have been divided. Although salt spoons would not traditionally be presented within a dessert service, the remaining pieces of the original cutlery set have been kept together.
Condition
This antique dessert service...
Category
British Victorian Antique 1870s More Dining and Entertaining