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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Nov 29, 2016 | Christie's | London | OPULENCE .Silver . Gold Boxes . 19th Century Furniture & Works of Art | 317 | $****** - ****** | A GERMAN ROYAL SILVER TABLE-SERVICE |
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From the ‘D’ service of Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover and King George I of Great Britain (1660-1727) and by descent in the Royal family of Great Britain and Hanover until the death of King William IV in 1837, when the two kingdoms separated under two monarchs.
Ernest Augustus, 1st Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (r.1837-1851), fifth son of King George III of Great Britain and brother of King William IV and by descent to his son
George V of Hanover, 2nd Duke of Cumberland (1819–1878) and King of Hanover until 1866 and by descent to his son
Ernest Augustus II, Crown Prince of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland (1845–1923) and then by descent
Works of Art from the Royal House of Hanover; Sotheby’s, Schloss Marienburg, 5-15 October 2005, lot 1136.
Recorded in the 'Inventory of Silver of the Royal and Electoral Court’, Hanover, 1747', p. 24 section 4 as twenty four of ‘6 dozen knives, oval with square ends 27 lbs [sic] 1 1/8 loth’ [approx 2 oz. 17 dwt. each]; twenty four of ‘6 dozen forks with three prongs 24 lbs [sic] 14 3/8 loth’ [approx 2 oz. 12 dwt. each] and ’6 dozen spoons 26 lbs [sic] 8 loth’ [approx 2 oz. 15 dwt. each].
Dog-nose pattern, the knives with fluted terminal, the spoons with rat tail, each engraved with the Royal arms of Hanover below an elector’s bonnet and flanked by the initials G[eorg] L[udwig] C[hurfürst], the forks and twenty-three spoons each marked on handle with maker’s mark only, the knives and one spoon apparently unmarked, the spoons and forks each engraved with inventory numbers the spoons 15, 1.15, 16, 1.16, 17, 1.17, 18, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22, 1.23, 1.25, 1.28, 1.29, 1.30, 1.31, 1.32, 1,33, 1.34, 1.35, 1.36, 1.38, 1.39 and 1.40, the forks: 1.12, 1.13, 14, 15, 1.15, 16, 1.16, 18, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24, 1.25, 1.26, 1.27, 1.28, 1.29, 1.30, 1.31, 1.32, 1.33 and 1.34, comprising:
Twenty-four table-spoons
Twenty-four table-forks
Twenty-four table-knives, twenty-two with modern stainless steel blades, two with steel blades
weighable silver 119 oz. 13 dwt. (3,722 gr.)
The arms and monogram are those of Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover (r.1708-1727) and King George I of Great Britain (r.1714-1727), as Elector-Designate of Hanover between 1698 and 1708.
