M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS

  

 

MATCHED SET OF FOUR GEORGE III SILVER KNIFE RESTS

Charles Fox, London 1817 (2)

Rebeccah Emes and Edward Barnard, London 1815 (2)

 

 

Of heavy gauge silver, each formed of a baluster shaped stretcher supported by end shaped crosses,

also of baluster form, terminating in ring and ball finials

 

Condition : Excellent; sit flat on the table; wear to several marks;

most makers' marks somewhat rubbed or partially stuck

 

 Knife rests are extremely useful either for resting service knives and spoons on the table, or for holding pistol-handled knives, some of which have difficulty remaining on the edge of the plates

 

Charles Fox is noted of producing work of “consistently high quality”.  Grimwade describes him as “perhaps one of the last individualist plateworkers before the debacle of Victorian mass production”. 

Emes and Barnard was on of the largest working firms of their period,

reported to have wide connections with in the trade. 

The ledgers show that they supplied plate to the prestigious Rundell, Bridge and Rundell.

 

2.5” Long /  2.9 oz.

 

SOLD

 

#6599

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Marks for Charles Fox

 

 

 

Marks for Rebeccah Emes and Edward Barnard

 

 

 

 

 

Shown Together with a

Good Set of 4 William IV Silver Knife Rests, Rawlings & Summers

 


 

 

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Matched Set of 4 George III Silver Knife Rests, Charles Fox, Emes and Barnard