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A RARE WILLIAM IV SILVER PART TABLE-SERVICE
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A RARE WILLIAM IV SILVER PART TABLE-SERVICE

MARK OF JOHN HAYNE, LONDON, 1830, 1832 AND 1833

Details
A RARE WILLIAM IV SILVER PART TABLE-SERVICE
MARK OF JOHN HAYNE, LONDON, 1830, 1832 AND 1833
Old England pattern, engraved with a crest, comprising:
36 table-forks
13 table-spoons, one by Tiffany and Co.
18 dessert-forks
18 dessert-spoons
18 teaspoons
6 egg-spoons
6 salt-spoons, one by Tiffany and Co.
1 mustard-spoon
4 sauce ladles
1 fish-slice
2 basting-spoons
1 meat-skewer
1 cream-ladle
1 sifing-spoon
318 oz. (9,885 gr.) (119)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's Geneva, 19 November 1991, lot 11 (part)
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Ian Pickford suggests that with it's use of the symbolic plants of the United Kingdom; oak leaves, acorns and roses for England, shamrocks for Ireland and thistles for Scotland; and it's earliest appearance in 1830, that this pattern was first produced to commemorate the coronation of William IV, (I. Pickford, Silver Flatware English, Irish and Scottish 1660-1980, Woodbridge, 1983, p. 130, fig. 190).

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