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A FINE GEORGE IV COMPOSITE SILVER-GILT AND SILVER-GILT MOUNTED AGATE DESSERT SERVICE
Comprising:
Twelve gray agate pistol-handled dessert spoons, the backs of the
silver-gilt bowls engraved with a crest under an Earl's coronet,
maker's mark of William Chawner, London, 1829
Twelve octagonally-faceted agate-handled dessert knives with
silver-gilt scimitar blades, similarly engraved, maker's mark of Robert Peppin, London, 1829
Twelve matching agate-handled three-pronged dessert forks, unengraved, by the same, 1829
Twelve fluted gray agate pistol-handled cheese knives, with silver-gilt ferrules and scimitar steel blades, the ferrules unmarked, the blades stamped W. GARRARD
A pair of carving knives, similar
Four silver-gilt fiddle, thread and shell pattern serving spoons, similarly engraved, William Chawner, 1829
Two silver-gilt hour-glass pattern serving shovels, similarly engraved, one with broken stem, William Chawner, 1823 and 1829
Together with a pair of threaded old English pattern silver-gilt cream ladles, similarly engraved, one with broken stem, maker's mark of John Power, Dublin, circa 1790
In fitted mahogany case with label of "R & S Garrard, Goldsmiths and Jewellers to the Royal Family, Panton Street, Haymarket, LONDON"
19oz. (599gr.) weighable silver
Chawner, William (58)
Comprising:
Twelve gray agate pistol-handled dessert spoons, the backs of the
silver-gilt bowls engraved with a crest under an Earl's coronet,
maker's mark of William Chawner, London, 1829
Twelve octagonally-faceted agate-handled dessert knives with
silver-gilt scimitar blades, similarly engraved, maker's mark of Robert Peppin, London, 1829
Twelve matching agate-handled three-pronged dessert forks, unengraved, by the same, 1829
Twelve fluted gray agate pistol-handled cheese knives, with silver-gilt ferrules and scimitar steel blades, the ferrules unmarked, the blades stamped W. GARRARD
A pair of carving knives, similar
Four silver-gilt fiddle, thread and shell pattern serving spoons, similarly engraved, William Chawner, 1829
Two silver-gilt hour-glass pattern serving shovels, similarly engraved, one with broken stem, William Chawner, 1823 and 1829
Together with a pair of threaded old English pattern silver-gilt cream ladles, similarly engraved, one with broken stem, maker's mark of John Power, Dublin, circa 1790
In fitted mahogany case with label of "R & S Garrard, Goldsmiths and Jewellers to the Royal Family, Panton Street, Haymarket, LONDON"
19oz. (599gr.) weighable silver
Chawner, William (58)
Provenance
Christie's, New York, April 12, 1988, lot 258