Setting the Sensational Table

Mid 19th century French porcelain dessert service in the Vieux Paris taste with magenta and gilt decoration: 10 plates, cake plate, cream bowl, corbeille, petit-fours stand, coffee pot, creamer, sugar bowl, 10 cups and 10 saucers

Set of twelve French Belle Epoque plated silver cake forks in the Napoleon III taste

Set of twelve large French Belle Epoque dinner napkins with embroidered monogram “TG”

Boxed set of English Edwardian plated silver napkin rings with engine-turned decoration, stamped “Plato” in interior

19th century French Napoleon III period plated silver bread tray

Boxed set of 19th century French Napoleon III plated silver flatware in the Louis XV taste: twelve place forks and twelve place spoons

Assembled set of eight early 20th century American silver dinner knives in the Francis I pattern by Reed & Barton, circa 1915

Late 19th century French faience plate with floral decoration and blue filets

Late 19th century French faience plate with floral bouquet tied with ribbon, and blue, black and yellow filets

Late 19th century French faience plate with floral decoration and feathered blue rim

Late 19th century French faience plate with floral arrangement in vase and blue filets

Late 19th century French faience plate with floral decoration and blue scalloped rim

Late 19th century French faience plate with floral arrangement in black urn, and blue border

Late 19th century French faience plate with floral decoration, and blue, black and yellow filets

French Belle Epoque porcelain dinner service by Limoges with pink and grey filets, and monogram “FP” or “PF”

Set of late 19th century French first standard (.950) silver flatware in the “violin” pattern, maker Emile Puiforcat, Paris: 12 forks and 12 spoons

Boxed late 19th century French “service a decouper” with plated silver handles, Thiers: pair of horn salad servers, carving set, 12 dinner knives and 12 cheese/dessert knives with blades stamped “inoxydable”

Early 20th century French porcelain dinner service with blue and yellow decoration in the Arts & Crafts taste: tureen, 18 dinner plates, 12 soup plates, 3 small plates, large round serving plate, salad bowl, sauceboat, 2 relish dishes, 2 tazzas (cake stands)

Boxed set of twelve 19th century French Napoleon III dinner knives with ebony handles, blades marked “Merrmillod Freres a Chatellerault”

Set of twelve French Art Moderne marble “porte-couteaux” knife rests