MOST MARK OF WILLIAM II, CHARLES AND HENRY ELEY, LONDON, 1824

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A GEORGE IV SILVER FLATWARE SERVICE
MOST MARK OF WILLIAM II, CHARLES AND HENRY ELEY, LONDON, 1824
Fiddle, Thread and Shell pattern, each engraved with a crest, comprising:
Thirty tablespoons
Forty-seven table forks
Twenty-four dessert spoons
Twenty-three teaspoons
Eighteen dessert forks
Twelve table knives, mark of Moses Brent, London, 1807
Forty-two cheese knives
A pair of soup ladles
A pair of straining spoons
A pair of gravy spoons
A pierced fish slice
A marrow scoop
Two pairs of sugar tongs
A large cheese scoop
Two large butter knives
A pair of salt spoons
Together with:
A pair of sauce ladles, mark of William Eley I and William Fearn, London, 1816
A large meat skewer, mark of William Eley II and William Fearn, London, 1824
A smaller meat skewer, mark of William Eley II and William Fearn, London, 1823
A silver-plated nut serving spoon by Mappin Brothers
455 oz. 18 dwt. (14,180 gr.) weighable silver

The crest is that of Berkeley, as borne by the Earls of Berkeley.

Provenance

Acquired from James Robinson Inc., New York, February 1966.

Literature

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 411, no. 475 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

The date of the service suggests it may have been commissioned by Maurice Frederick FitzHardinge Berkeley (1788-1867), later Admiral of the Blue and 1st Baron FitzHardinge of Bristol following his marriage. He was the illegitimate son of the 5th Earl of Berkeley. He married Lady Charlotte Lennox, daughter of General Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, as his first wife, in 1823.

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