An extensive set of Danish silver flatware Georg Jensen, Copenhagen, after 1913

lily of the valley (Liljekonval) pattern, comprising: tray 1: two sauce-ladles, a sugar sifter, a pair of croquet tongs, a pastry serving spoon, a hors d'oeuvre fork, a sugar spoon, a custard spoon; tray 2: a salad serving set, a cucumber serving set with silver handles, a serving fork; tray 3: a fish knife, a cake slice, a fish serving fork, a fish slice, all with partly wood handles; tray 4: a fruit ladle, two vegetable spoons, two rice ladles; tray 5: twelve cake forks, a salad serving set with silver handles, a knife, two serving spoons, a small sauce ladle, a butter knife; tray 6: twelve mocha spoons, twelve tea spoons, a cake fork, nineteen dessert forks, nineteen dessert spoons; tray 7: twelve coffee spoons, twelve ice-spoons, seventeen fish knives, sixteen fish forks; tray 8: twelve lobster forks, twelve cake forks, twelve small spoons, twelve butter knives, eleven dessert knives; tray 9: thirty table forks, six table spoons; tray 10: eighteen fruit forks, eighteen fruit knives, four small serving forks; tray 11: six dessert knives, fifteen table knives; tray 12: seven dessert knives, twenty-one table knives; a pair of nut-crackers, a table bell, two wine coasters, twelve coasters.

Property of a noble family

In 1906 Georg Jensen introduced his first flatware pattern, called Antik in Danish. It was a relatively simple design and many of Jensen's subsequent patterns are more elaborate and show the more sculptural qualities that are characteristic of his style. Many of Jensen's flatware design were inspired by natural forms, like the lily of the valley pattern of the set on offer, which was introduced in 1913. See: Janet Drucker, Georg Jensen, a tradition of splendid silver, 2001, p. 266-67. The coasters are illustrated on page 248.