Details
Each handle of pistol-grip form and oval section, the ends molded with ozier-ornament, finely painted with scattered insects and flowers, the silver blades and tangs with rocaille ornament, in a rectangular two-trayed leather-mounted Cardeilhac case labeled for Mrs. Byron Foy, comprising:

Eleven forks with Holzschnitt Blumen
Three slightly larger forks with deustche Blumen
Nine knives with Holzschnitt Blumen
Four slightly larger knives with deustche Blumen

Together with:
A later Dresden porcelain fork with silver-plate tines
Two later Dresden porcelain knives with silver-plate blades
778 in. (20 cm.) long, the larger knives
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 April 2000, lot 129.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
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