Thirty-six Meissen (Marcolini) gilt-metal mounted cutlery handles

CIRCA 1800

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Thirty-six Meissen (Marcolini) gilt-metal mounted cutlery handles
Circa 1800
Each of tapering oval section with flat sides edged in gilding and painted with bouquets and flower-sprays, twelve fitted with a three-tined fork, twelve with a tapering knife-blade and twelve with a dessert-spoon (slight rubbing to gilt edges, two fork-handles and one knife-handle cracked across and restored), in a contemporary chamois leather and sponged-paper lined three-trayed rectangular gilt-tooled leather-mounted case (36)

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