Lot 31
  • 31

Ménagère en argent et vermeil de, la plupart des pièces par la Veuve Jamet, Paris, 1852-1860, quelques pièces par Puiforcat et Queille, Paris, vers 1880

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
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Description

  • thread fiddle and shell pattern, each piece engraved with monogram DP, comprising:
    -35 table forks
    -24 table spoons
    -35 table knives
    -24 dessert forks (slightly different pattern)
    -36 dessert spoons (slightly different pattern)
    -24 cheese knives
    -24 fruit knives (mother of pearl handles)
    -2 silver-gilt ice spoons
    -2 sauce laddles
    -1 silver parcel-gilt serving set
    -4 salt spoons
    -1 cake server (ivory handle)
    -1 cheese fork and  knife
    -1 knife and a fork (ivory handle)
    -3 sugar spoons
    -1 silver-gilt sugar tong
    -2 compote spoons
    in three fitted wood boxes engraved DP on the cover and also engraved on the rim of two boxesTouron Fnt Feur  de S. M.. l' Empereur,  rue Richelieu 101, Paris

     

modèle filet violon coquille, chaque pièce gravée du monogramme DP, comprenant:
- 35 fourchettes de table
- 24 cuillères de table
- 35 couteaux de table
- 24 fourchettes à entremets (modèle légèrement différent)
- 36 cuillères à entremets (même modèle que les fourchettes)
- 24 couteaux à fromage
- 24 couteaux à fruit (manches en nacre)
- 2 pelles à sorbet
- 2 cuillères à sauce
- 2 pièces de service en partie dorées
- 4 pelles à sel
- 1 pelle à tarte (manche en ivoire)
- 2 pièces de service à fromage
- 2 pièces de service à viande
- 3 cuillères à sucre
- 1 pince à sucre en vermeil
- 2 cuillères à compote
Dans trois écrins en bois gravés DP et Touron Fnt Feur de S.M. l'Empereur, rue Richelieu 101, Paris

Condition

In overall very good condition. The cheese handle to be refixed. The serving set ivory handles cracked. Veuve Jamet: table forks and spoons Table knives: some P Queille, some E Puiforcat, some unmarked E Puiforcat: table knives, serving pieces, a sauce ladle P Queille: one sauce ladle, teaspoons, dessert forks and spoons, condiment set Two cream spoons unmarked of slightly different pattern, also engraved DP A sugar sifter by Charles-Josse Walgrave, Paris, 1838-1862 The dessert knives with mother-of-pearl handles with maker's mark TP The sugar tong, Louis-Isidore Angée, Paris, 1838-1842
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