A GEORGE III SILVER PART TABLE SERVICE IN A PAIR OF GEORGE III TULIPWOOD-CROSSBANDED FIGURED MAHOGANY KNIFE OR CUTLERY BOXES

A GEORGE III SILVER PART TABLE SERVICE IN A PAIR OF GEORGE III TULIPWOOD-CROSSBANDED FIGURED MAHOGANY KNIFE OR CUTLERY BOXES
LONDON, WITH MARKS OF GEORGE SMITH, 1797, MICHAEL BARNETT, AND WILLIAM ELEY, WILLIAM FEARN AND WILLIAM CHAWNER, 1812; THE BOXES, LATE 18TH CENTURY, ONE SILVER MOUNT WITH MARK OF JOHN BROCKWELL, LONDON, 1797
Old English pattern, comprising:
Eleven table spoons
Twenty-four table forks, one silver-plated
Eleven dessert spoons
Twelve dessert forks
and with filled handles and of thread pattern:
Twenty-four table knives, with steel blades
Twelve fruit knives, with silver blades
most with a coat-of-arms, all fully marked
The boxes each with hinged sloping cover enclosing a boxwood and fruitwood chequer strung interior fitted for knives, forks and spoons, the ogee-shaped front mounts with white-metal ring-handle and escutcheon engraved with a lozenge-of-arms, on ogee bracket feet

The boxes: 15 in. (38.5 cm.) high; 9 1/4 in. (24.5 cm.) wide; 11 1/4 in. (28.5 cm.) deep
The arms in a lozenge are those of Hervey of Tiddington, co. Oxford, for Miss Barbara Hervey (1740-1813) of Chilton, the unmarried daughter and heir of George Hervey of Tiddington ( 1705-1774) and his first wife Penelope Chernock (1704–1743).