Set consisting of a flatware set and two knives - Lot 128

Set consisting of a flatware set and two knives one with a steel blade, the second with a vermeil blade. Model with violin-shell decoration, chased with rocailles. The spatulas are engraved with the coats of arms of the Landgrave of Hesse Darmstadt and his wife née Leiningen Dagsburg. Master goldsmiths: The knives by Johann Remichius BERENTZ, received in 1737, and the flatware by Jean-Louis III IMLIN, received in 1746. STRASBOURG 1749-1751. Gross weight of knives 210 g Weight of cutlery 167 g Bibliography: Jacques HELFT, Le poinçon des provinces Françaises, F de Nobele, Paris 1968. Reproduced on plates n° LXXXVIII A and A'. Notes : From a set, the majority of which is in the Toledo Museum (Ohio), commissioned in 1746 by Marie-Louise Albertine de Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg (1729-1818) wife of Prince George-Guillaume de Hesse-Darmstadt. A coffee pot by Jean-Jacques EHRLEN and a chocolate pot by Gottfried.