A SET OF ENGLISH SILVER-GILT MOUNTED SÈVRES-STYLE BLUE GROUND FLATWARE

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A SET OF ENGLISH SILVER-GILT MOUNTED SÈVRES-STYLE BLUE GROUND FLATWARE
CIRCA 1836, THE SILVER-GILT BLADES AND TINES BY CHARLES RAWLINGS AND WILLIAM SUMMERS AND DATED 1835 AND 1836

With gadrooned terminals, painted with exotic birds reserved within oval panels on the bright blue ground gilt with a quatrefoil trellis, the blades and tines engraved with a baronet's coronet (minor wear) (24)

Provenance

Alfred de Rothschild, Esq.
Edmund de Rothschild, Esq., T.D., Christie's London, June 30, 1975, lot 77
The Christner Collection: Vol. III, Important French Porcelain, Christie's New York, June 9, 1979, lot 239

Lot Essay

The present set of flatware is an example of the fine workmanship produced in England by enamellers such as R. Robins and T.M. Randall for the firm of Baldock and Jarman which supplied an enormous market for porcelain in the Sèvres mid 18th century style that was so in vogue at the time. See W.B. Honey, European Ceramic Art, London, 1952, p. 563; also Carl D. Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection: Porcelain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, no. 113 for a Sèvres set dated circa 1765 similar in decoration but of variant shape on which the present set may be based.