"Tadpole Versailles Model: Dessert Cake Service In Sterling Silver Vermeil From St. Louis XIV"
Cake service including twelve forks and a vermeil pie server by Têtard.The Versailles model at Tétard is inspired by the reign of Louis XIV. The handles are decorated with scraps of base and interlacing on an amati background, ending in a large spatula delimited by windings.
All pieces are in warm, deep yellow vermeil, in excellent condition.
The forks come in a box.
Each piece is hallmarked:
. Minerve 1st title before 1973
. Goldsmith's mark: TFreres with a tureen for Tétard Frères, mark inscribed in 1903 upon the takeover of the company founded by the father in 1880.
Magnificent and rare silver-gilt cake service by one of the most beautiful models from this great goldsmith house.
. Shovel :
10.25 inches long
133.5 grams
. Forks:
14.5cm
405.58 grams for the whole
Total weight: 539 grams
Very good state. Micro scratches from use.
Hand delivery in Paris or sending by insured Colissimo.
France: 15€
Europe: 20€
World: €35