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223 Pieces Whiting Alhambra Sterling Silver Flatware Set ca 1880
$16,800List Price
About the Item
The pattern was introduced in 1870. Moorish style furniture and architectural design wer all the rage in the late 19th Century. (Also, in the mid-19th century until the 1880's, hollow handle dinnner and luncheon knives were not manufactured for all patterns. Pearl handled knives were used at dinner and lunch.
The set includes an extraordinary collection of servers. The set was collected and assembled over a twenty (20) year period. The servers feature gilding, hand engraving and brightcut work, gilding, piercing and more. The large berry, preserve, pudding serving spoons can be used for any purpose. Varied monograms. In excellent condition. The set is a testimony to 19th Century culinary life -- when dining was an art!
History of the Alhambra in Spain
The Alhambra (Arabic: literally "the red one"), the complete form of which was Calat Alhambra, "the red fortress", is a palace and fortress complex constructed during the mid 14th century by the Moorish rulers of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus, occupying the top of the hill of the Assabica on the southeastern border of the city of Granada in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia.
The Alhambra's Moorish palaces were built for the last Muslim Emirs in Spain and its court, of the Nasrid dynasty. After the Reconquista (reconquest) by the Reyes Católicos ("Catholic Monarchs") in 1492, some portions were used by the Christian rulers. The Palace of Charles V, built by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in 1527, was inserted in the Alhambra within the Nasrid fortifications. After being allowed to fall into disrepair for centuries, the Alhambra was "discovered" in the 19th century by European scholars and travelers, with restorations commencing. It is now one of Spain's major tourist attractions, exhibiting the country's most significant and well known Islamic architecture, together with 16th-century and later Christian building and garden interventions. The Alhambra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the inspiration for many songs and stories.
INCLUDED IN THE OFFERED SET OF WHITING ALHAMBRA STERLING SILVER:
12 solid silver tea knives 8”
12 pearl handled knives, silverplate blades 9"
12 carved pearl handled knives, silverplate blades 8 3/4"
6 tea knives 7”
12 tablespoons 8 3/8”
12 dessert/oval soup spoons 7”
18 teaspoons 6”
12 five o'clock teaspoons 4 7/8”
12 coffee spoons 4 ¼”
12 egg spoons 5”
11 ice cream/sorbet spoons 5”
12 dinner forks 7 ½”
12 luncheon/salad/dessert forks 7”
12 pastry/dessert (3 tine) forks 6 3/8”
6 large pie forks 7 ½”
1 large soup ladle 12 ¾”
1 oyster ladle 10 ¼”
1 large gravy ladle 7 ¾”
1 small gravy ladle 7”
2 sugar sifter ladles 6 ½”
1 sauce ladle 6”
1 cream ladle (bucket style) 7 3/4”
1 mustard ladle 5”
1 mustard ladle (bucket style) 5”
1 small sugar sifter ladle 6”
1 beef fork 9”
2 piece small serving set 5 ¾”
Two 2 piece large serving sets – spoon fork – 11”
2 piece fish set, for 9 3/8”, slice 12 5/8”
1 crumb knife 12”
1 cake knife 12”
1 large master butter knife, twist handle 7 ½”
1 small master butter knife 6 ½”
1 pickle fork/speark 9 1/4”
1 pickle knife 6 ½”
3 serving spoons 6"
1 sugar spoon 5 1/4"
2 preserve spoons/servers 9"
1 vegetable spoon, brightcut engraved bowl 9"
2 berry spoons/servers, brightcut, engraved, fluted bowls 9 1/4"
2 pudding spoons/servers 9 1/8"
4 master salt spoons 3 5/8"
1 sugar tongs 6 1/4"
1 jelly server 6"
1 jelly spoon 6"
1 flat pierced server 10”
2 flat servers, not pierced, 8 7/8" 9 1/8"
3 piece child's set 6"
1 an exceedingly rare macaroni fork/spoon 9"
- Sold As:Set of 223
- Materials and Techniques:
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- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:Circa 1885
- Condition:
- Seller Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: U1103038558516
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