An English Assembled Silver and Silver-Plate Flatware Service
Sale 2109 - Property from the Aline Elwes McDonnell Trust
Jun 21, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$3,000 -
5,000
Price Realized
$4,445
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot 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.
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.
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 to
Barbara 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 descent
Pictured:
An 1807 engraving of Copped Hall, S. Rawle from a drawing by S. Shepherd.
Aline Elwes McDonnell and Family, circa 1954.
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