A GILT-METAL MOUNTED BERLIN PART FLATWARE SERVICE

Details

A GILT-METAL MOUNTED BERLIN PART FLATWARE SERVICE
CIRCA 1770

Each handle moulded with green foliate swags and painted in colours front and back with scenes of military life, comprising:

Twelve knives. two cracked, 4in. (10.2cm.) long, the porcelain
Twelve forks, 4in. (10.2cm.) long, the porcelain
Twelve spoons, one cracked, 4in. (10.2cm.) long, the porcelain (36)

Provenance

Jack and Belle Linsky, New York

Lot Essay

A similar service was in the collection of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia. Another is known in the Tielebier Collection, Berlin. Cf. Eric Köllmann, Berliner Porzellan 1763-1963, Brauschweig, 1966, pls. 94, 101, p. 312