EIGHTEEN PAIRS OF VICTORIAN PORCELAIN-HANDLED SILVER-GILT FRUIT KNIVES AND FORKS
MARK OF FRANCIS HIGGINS, LONDON, 1874
The porcelain handles with foliate moulded cartouches painted with Watteau-esque couples, flower sprays and insects, the knife blades engraved with a crow crest beneath a baron's coronet, contained in a fitted burr-walnut brass bound box with two pull-out drawers
The box 11½ in. (29.2 cm.) wide (36)
EIGHTEEN PAIRS OF VICTORIAN PORCELAIN-HANDLED SILVER-GILT FRUIT KNIVES AND FORKS
MARK OF FRANCIS HIGGINS, LONDON, 1874
The porcelain handles with foliate moulded cartouches painted with Watteau-esque couples, flower sprays and insects, the knife blades engraved with a crow crest beneath a baron's coronet, contained in a fitted burr-walnut brass bound box with two pull-out drawers
The box 11½ in. (29.2 cm.) wide (36)
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