Lot Essay
The crest and motto found here are those of Conolly.
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THE SPOONS AND FORKS MARK OF MAURICE MAYER, PARIS, 1826-1846, THE KNIVES MARK OF PIERRE QUEILLE, PARIS, 1834-1846
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A FRENCH SILVER-GILT AND HARDSTONE DESSERT FLATWARE SERVICE
THE SPOONS AND FORKS MARK OF MAURICE MAYER, PARIS, 1826-1846, THE KNIVES MARK OF PIERRE QUEILLE, PARIS, 1834-1846
Comprising twenty dessert spoons, twenty dessert forks, and twenty dessert knives, the gilt bowls, tines, and blades with mounts cast and chased with lizards, grapevines, and pendant grape bunches, with faceted rectangular bloodstone handles, engraved on the knife blades and reverse of the spoon bowls with a crest and motto, in a fitted green leather case lined with claret color velvet with two lift-out trays, stamped on the cover with gilt monogram E.W.F. within an embossed foliate border
THE SPOONS AND FORKS MARK OF MAURICE MAYER, PARIS, 1826-1846, THE KNIVES MARK OF PIERRE QUEILLE, PARIS, 1834-1846
Comprising twenty dessert spoons, twenty dessert forks, and twenty dessert knives, the gilt bowls, tines, and blades with mounts cast and chased with lizards, grapevines, and pendant grape bunches, with faceted rectangular bloodstone handles, engraved on the knife blades and reverse of the spoon bowls with a crest and motto, in a fitted green leather case lined with claret color velvet with two lift-out trays, stamped on the cover with gilt monogram E.W.F. within an embossed foliate border
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 20 October 1999, lot 112.
Acquired from Partridge Fine Arts PLC., London by Ann Getty, 14 March 2000.
Acquired from Partridge Fine Arts PLC., London by Ann Getty, 14 March 2000.
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