A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT BERRY SPOONS
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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT BERRY SPOONS

MARK OF EDWARD FARRELL, LONDON, 1820

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT BERRY SPOONS
MARK OF EDWARD FARRELL, LONDON, 1820
Each bowl realistically modelled as a leaf, with a branch-form handle, the terminal formed as a putto holding aloft a basket of flowers, each marked on bowl
7¾ in. (19.6 cm.) long; 8 oz. (255 gr.) (2)

拍品专文

A spoon, fork and knife with identical stems by Farrell, 1816-1818 are illustrated in J. Culme, Nineteenth Century Silver, London, 1977, p. 133.

An identical pair of berry spoons was sold in the Partridge Collection in These Rooms, May 17, 2006, lot 34.