A COMPOSITE GEORGE III SILVER TABLE SERVICE OF KING'S PATTERN FLATWARE

A COMPOSITE GEORGE III SILVER TABLE SERVICE OF KING'S PATTERN FLATWARE
THE MAJORITY MARK OF WILLIAM ELEY, WILLIAM FEARN AND WILLIAM CHAWNER, LONDON, 1814 AND WILLIAM ELEY AND WILLIAM FEARN, LONDON, 1815
Comprising:
Thirty-one table-spoons, fifty-seven table-forks (and a further two with an integral steel blade fitted to the fourth tine), eighteen dessert-spoons, twenty-eight dessert-forks, ten tea-spoons, six salt-spoons, three egg-spoons, two soup ladles, six basting-spoons, seven sauce-ladles, two sugar-sifters of graduated sizes, an asparagus server, a fish slice and a Stilton scoop; together with eighteen table-knives and eleven cheese-knives, a four-piece carving set and four meat-forks, various dates and makers, all with steel blades and filled handles; a silver-gilt dessert service comprising ten each of dessert-spoons, forks and knives, the latter with silver-gilt blades, a sauce-ladle, a sugar-sifter, grape scissors and six serving spoons with shell bowls; a further seventeen dessert-knives by Moses Brent, London, 1814, with filled silver-gilt handles and steel blades; all variously engraved, most with the Somerset crest within motto scroll
Weighable silver: 568 oz. 8 dwt. (16,113 gr.)