52-piece King's Honeysuckle Pattern Canteen, London 1826 - 40 by John Harris and S Haynes & D Cater
King's Pattern
King's Pattern is the most well known and popular of the decorative patterns. It was based on an 18th century French design and became fashionable amongst the wealthy in the early years of the 19th Century.
King's Honeysuckle is a highly cherished variant of the standard King's Pattern. The overall design encompasses a shell to both sides of the handle terminal and reverse of the bowl, scrolls down the handle shaft with a honeysuckle motif to the centre. The variant pattern has additional honeysuckle motifs down the front terminal of the spoons and the reverse terminal of the forks. The heel to the underside of the bowls is also in the form of a honeysuckle rather than the usual shell.
The double-struck nature of the pattern (i.e. pattern on both sides) ensures that a good gauge of silver was used in manufacture. The Honeysuckle variant was only made in London where it was hand-wrought and has a high relief to the decoration.
The Service
All the pieces within this service bear the same engraved crest.
The majority of pieces date from the Georgian period and are hallmarked London 1826 by John Harris - that is all the table forks, dessert spoons and table spoons (30 pieces). The teaspoons and dessert forks were made by Samuel Haynes & Dudley Cater in 1840 with some dessert forks from 1830 by Robert Hennell.
Components
This 52-piece service consists of the following:
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12 off table/dinner forks
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12 off dessert forks
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12 off dessert spoons
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8 off table/soup spoons
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8 off teaspoons
The total weight of silver is 4060 grams (130.5 tr. oz.)
Optional Extras
We can offer a set of 6 additional teaspoons (engraved with letter "L") to augment the number of teaspoons available. These are hallmarked London 1837 by Haynes & Cater (200 grams weight) and would cost £180 for 6 or £120 for 4.
A wide range of antique silver handled King's Pattern knives are available (details on request), alternatively new silver handled King's Pattern knives can be supplied to the number required.
We have a good selection of other King's Pattern serving items in stock. A selection are shown at this link (King's Pattern servers), but more are available on request.
Condition
Excellent polished condition with crisp decoration. All the fork tines are full length and the spoon bowls are unworn.
Presentation
This canteen is supplied in top quality navy blue anti-tarnish cutlery rolls.
As with all the canteens available from our web-site, we are happy to send a sample place setting for approval, on receipt of a fully refundable surety payment, prior to purchasing this canteen.
Price for 52 pieces: £3795
Ref. No.: KHIH/S804
| Ref.: KHIH/S804 (52 pieces) | Price: £3795 | Postage: FREE |
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| above - photo showing the front sides of
each piece
below - how a place setting would look with silver handled King's Pattern knives |
above - photo showing the reverse sides of
each piece
below - photo showing the 12 table forks within a cutlery roll |
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| below - - photo illustrating the crisp
decoration and the honeysuckle motifs to the front of the forks and
reverse sides of the spoons
below - close up of the front terminal illustrating the extremely crisp decoration and the engraved crest that is consistent on each of the 52 pieces. |
above - example of hallmark for London 1826
by John Harris
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