Queen Anne variant pattern, the handles variously applied and engraved with Japanese figures in landscapes, birds, shells, crabs, fish, and trailing foliage, marked on reverse of handles
6 oz. (187 gr.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 13 September 1996, lot 858.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

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The pattern seen here is identified as a "most unusual variation of Queen Anne" by W. Hood Jr., Tiffany Silver Flatware, 1845-1905: When Dining Was an Art, Suffolk, 1999, p. 210 fig. 323, and p. 291 figs. 444a and 444b. The gilt ice cream spoons illustrated by Hood are applied with similar leaves, fish, and crabs, and engraved with similarly trailing foliage to the forks in the present lot.