A FINE SET OF TWELVE WILLIAM IV SILVER-GILT MOUNTED FRUIT KNIVES AND FORKS

A FINE SET OF TWELVE WILLIAM IV SILVER-GILT MOUNTED FRUIT KNIVES AND FORKS

BY RAWLINGS AND SUMMERS, LONDON 1836

the blades and tines with engraved borders and with a coronet, the porcelain handles possibly by Sevres, decorated with birds in a turquoise surround and with gilt highlights, in two fitted trays (24)

Provenance

Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) Halton House, Buckinghamshire

Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)

Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009)

The Trustees of Exbury House