Importante ménagère de couverts en argent, modèle "Lap over Edge", par Edward C. Moore pour Tiffany, New York, 1869-1891

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 EUR

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Description

Importante ménagère de couverts en argent, modèle "Lap over Edge", par Edward C. Moore pour Tiffany, New York, 1869-1891
Les fourchettes de table de 20 décors différents, incluant des chauve-souris, écureuils, différentes sortes de poissons, homards, araignées, fraises, noisettes, feuilles d'arbre, chardons...
Les couteaux de table de 18 décors différents, comprenant tortues, crevettes, grenouilles, méduses, différentes sortes de poissons, crabes, hippocampes, oies, algues, branches de pommier, champignons...
Les cuillères de table de 24 modèles différents, avec différentes sortes d'oiseaux et de poissons, papillons, libellules, hippocampes, fruits, fleurs, branchages de pin, feuilles... Certaines non gravées du monogramme.
Les couteaux à poisson de 19 modèles différents, avec différentes sortes de poissons, canards, tortues, pieuvres, hérons, grenouilles, crabes, crevettes, cigognes, coquillages, algues...
Les fourchettes à poisson de 22 modèles différents, avec hippocampes, homards, crevettes, grenouilles, tortues, crabes, escargots, libellules, différentes sortes de poissons, coquillages, fleurs et feuilles, champignons, algues, trèfle à quatre feuilles..., le service à poisson gravé du chiffre B.

Le couvert de service à décor de poissons , cerfs et biches, gravé JCB .
10 138 g sans les couteaux de table ; 325oz 20dwt without table knives

gravé FCB, comprenant 48 fourchettes de table (table forks), 30 cuillères de table (table spoons), 48 couteaux de table (table knives), 30 fourchettes à poisson (fish forks), 30 couteaux à poisson (fish knives), 2 pièces de service (serving pieces)

comprising 48 table forks, 48 table knives, 30 table spoons, 30 fish knives and 30 fish forks, the majority with different images including bats, squirrels, different types of fish, lobstera, craba, strawberrys nuts, leaves, thistles, shrimps, frogs, jellyfishes, seahorses, geeses, seaweeds, japanese branches and mushrooms.

Provenance

Provenant d'un palais romain.

Condition

Sceneries slightly worn.Table knives, some marked Sterling and with another mark. Table spoons stamped "Tiffany & Co Sterling Pat 1880 m. Birds and Grass Importé des Etats-Unis" with Tiffany mark Fish and table forks stamped "M Tiffany & Co Sterling Pat. 1880". Fish knives blades stamped Tiffany & Co M Sterling 425, with Tiffany mark. Almost all pieces struck with French import marks. 1 table fork without monogram, apparently unmarked. 1 table fork with restoration on one tine. Some usual scratches on tines. Table knives blades later, some stamped INOXID, some V. BROGINI ROMA, some INOSSIDABILE. One handle to be restored, one restored at the bottom, some restored near the blades, some bumps. All table spoons without monogram. 8 fish forks without monogram including two unmarked. 7 fish knives without monogram including one apparently unmarked. 1 fish knife silver-plated engraved with monogram Very nice set.
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