Sterling Silver Gilt Dessert Service for Twelve Persons - Antique Victorian (1877)

Description

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.