Set of six silver and armorial bone dessert knives, France, second half of the 19th century

Description

Set of six entremets or dessert knives, made in France in the second half of the 19th century. Each piece has a rounded-tip sterling silver blade and a moulded silver ferrule. The shaped bone handles are decorated with inked heraldry: a shield surmounted by a helmet with lambrequins, charged with a tree beneath a chief bearing three stars. The blades bear the Minerve fineness mark as well as a silversmith’s maker’s mark struck in a lozenge.