Details
Each with anthemion border, engraved with coat-of-arms below a coronet and numbered underneath, comprising:
Sixty-four dinner plates,
Six second course dishes in two sizes,
Four oval serving dishes in three sizes; together with an Austrian silver divider, circa 1890
the dinner plates 914 in. (23.5 cm.) diameter; the second course dishes 1034 in. (27.3 cm.) and 1134 in. (30 cm.); the meat dishes: two 1814 in. (46.3 cm.), one 2612 in. (67.3 cm.) and the wider one 2712 in. (69.9 cm.) diameter
1,477 oz. 16 dwt. (45,966 gr.)
The arms on two meat dishes are those of Marie Louise (1797-1847) Empress of France from 1810-1814 as Napoléon's second wife and later Duchess of Parma (1814-1847).
Provenance
Property of a European Royal Family; Sotheby's, London, 14 April 2011, lot 118.
Special notice
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
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