Lot Essay
The arms are those of d'Orleans, as borne by Philippe d'Orleans, Comte de Paris and Head of the House of Orleans, born in 1838. He married in 1863 Marie Isabelle, Infanta of Spain and died in 1894.
Property of
A BOSTON COLLECTOR
A FRENCH SILVER-GILT DESSERT SERVICE
Details
A FRENCH SILVER-GILT DESSERT SERVICE
MAKER'S MARK OF EP LEAF BETWEEN, PARIS, 1840-1879
In Louis XVI style, the tapered stems with laurel borders and pendant bellflowers, engraved with a coat-of-arms and coronet, comprising:
Twelve dessert spoons
Twelve dessert forks
A sugar sifter
Sugar tong
A pastry server
(52oz., 1641gr.)
Twelve dessert knives with silver-gilt blades, maker's mark EC sword between, retailed by Odiot
Twelve cheese knives with steel blades, variously stamped
in fitted leather case (51)
MAKER'S MARK OF EP LEAF BETWEEN, PARIS, 1840-1879
In Louis XVI style, the tapered stems with laurel borders and pendant bellflowers, engraved with a coat-of-arms and coronet, comprising:
Twelve dessert spoons
Twelve dessert forks
A sugar sifter
Sugar tong
A pastry server
(52oz., 1641gr.)
Twelve dessert knives with silver-gilt blades, maker's mark EC sword between, retailed by Odiot
Twelve cheese knives with steel blades, variously stamped
in fitted leather case (51)