Live Auction 2091Important American Silver
A SILVER PART FLATWARE SERVICE
Lot 127 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

A SILVER PART FLATWARE SERVICE

MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 20TH CENTURY

Closed17 January 2008

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USD 11,250

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A SILVER PART FLATWARE SERVICE
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 20TH CENTURY
Persian pattern, engraved with initial C
Nine soup spoons
Eight table spoons
Eleven ice cream spoons
Eight tea spoons
Ten dinner forks
Six lunch forks
Eleven seafood forks
Eleven lobster forks
Ten dessert knives with silver blades
Four fruit knives with serrated silver blades
One stuffing spoon, with differing monogram
One smaller stuffing spoon
130 oz. (90)

This service belonged to Marguerite Chapin of New London, Connecticut, who became Princess Caetani in 1911 when she married the Italian Prince, Roffredo Caetani. From her prominent position in Europe, Princess Caetani promoted the work of many avant-garde literary figures of the 1940s and 1950s; she exposed writers like Dylan Thomas, Edith Sitwell and Tennessee Williams to an international audience through her literary magazine, Botteghe Oscure.