A flatware service, the shaped handles decorated with rococo shells and foliage incorporating vacant cartouches, comprising: twelve table spoons; twelve table forks; twelve teaspoons; a soup ladle; a basting spoon and a meat fork; with twelve table knives with steel blades; eleven pairs of dessert knives and forks with foliate-carved bone handles, in a plush-lined mahogany case for twelve pairs; and sixbean-end coffee spoons with six matching tea knives, also cased.