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An English Assembled Silver and Silver-Plate Flatware Service
Estimate: $3,000-$5,000
Sold
$3,500
Live Auction
Property from the Aline Elwes McDonnell Trust
Description
An English Assembled Silver and Silver-Plate Flatware Service
19th/20th Century
comprising:
20 dinner knives
20 luncheon knives
20 dinner forks
11 luncheon forks
12 tablespoons
12 dessert spoons
12 teaspoons
7 steak knives
6 dessert knives with mother-of-pearl handles
6 dessert forks with mother-of-pearl handles
1 small teapot
1 creamer
1 open sugar
1 toast rack
2 warming dishes with covers
4 sauce ladles
1 sugar sifter
1 sugar tongs
together with several assorted flatware articles of various styles; approximately 160 items total, all housed in a trunk with fitted lining.
166 ozt 8 dwt weighable
Length of dinner forks 8 inches.
Condition
The majority of the items are silver-plate and most have engraved monograms. The warming dishes, tea service, several dinner forks, and a few other items are sterling; only sterling items are included in the weight listed.
Provenance
Provenance:Aline Thorold (1869-1951) m. Ernest James Wythes (1868-1949) at Copped Hall, Essex, until 1917 and The Wood House, Essex, thereafter and by descent toBarbara Dorothy Wythes (1896-1984) m. (Francis) Guy Robert Elwes (1895-1966) at The Wood House, Essex until 1961 and Ham Spray House, Marlborough, thereafter and by descent to Aline Mary Margaret (Elwes) McDonnell (1923-2023) m. Hubert McDonnell Jr. (1919-2004), Greenwich, Connecticut, and thence by descentPictured:An 1807 engraving of Copped Hall, S. Rawle from a drawing by S. Shepherd.Aline Elwes McDonnell and Family, circa 1954.