Beschreibung:

An important Hungarian silver neoclassical travelling dinner service, maker's mark FH, probably for Franciscus Xaverius Huber (Koszeghy Elemer, no. 342), Budapest, circa 1790-1800 with running laurel borders, fruit and vegetable finials, hairy paw feet, in a fitted iron-bound chest, marked FH in oval, late 18th century Budapest mark, and with control marks from 1806 and 1809, comprising: 1 oval small tureen, cover, liner, and stand 1 circular small tureen, cover, liner and stand 6 dinner plates 1 oval platter 1 round platter 1 teapot, with leather-covered handle 1 sugar bowl and cover 1 ecuelle and cover 1 saucepan and cover, with turned wood handle 1 gilt soup ladle And in a gilt-tooled leather etui: 1 gilt oval spicebox 1 gilt handled steel knife, blade marked Klitson 1 gilt handled steel fork 1 gilt dinner fork 1 gilt tablespoon 1 gilt spoon/marrow scoop 1 gilt knife rest length of oval tureen over handles 8 1/4 in.; length of case 27 in. 21 cm; 68.5 cm 295 oz weighable 9174.5 g