WMF. An extremely rare WMF Silver plated cutlery set for 24 persons in the most wonderful original Art Nouveau cabinet
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An extremely rare WMF Silver plated cutlery set for 24 persons in the most wonderful original Art Nouveau cabinet with silver plated organic stylised mounts and the complete original Art Nouveau cutlery service it even has a crumb tray and it's brush. The last image is the original advert from the WMF catalogue, almost certainly the most extravagant Art Nouveau service produced by the company at that time. Circa 1900. The set consists of 334 pieces :- 24 large knives and 24 large forks. 24 smaller knives and 24 smaller forks. 24 large spoons and 24 smaller spoons. 24 fish knives and 24 fish forks. 2 large serving fish knives and 2 large serving fish forks. 2 large serving fish spoons. 4 palette knives. 18 knife rests. 24 teaspoons and 2 sugar sifting spoons. 24 small fruit spoons. 24 smaller spoons. 18 asparagus tongs. 6 salts with liners and 6 salt spoons. 2 large soup ladles and 2 gravy ladles. 2 carving knives and 2 carving forks. 2 salad serving spoons with ivorene spoon ends. 2 salad serving forks with ivorene fork ends. See Grotkamp-Schepers, Barbara and Sanger, Reinhard W. ‘Art Nouveau Knivesks and Spoons’ Stuttgart 20001, p. 87, item 82 for this pattern. See also Sotheby’s ‘Fine Decorative Arts from 1870’, 5th October 2004, Lot 67, hammer price £13,200 for a fitted canteen box for twelve place settings which is at the bottom of this page.
