Rare Baroque tableware with a floral pattern.

Silver, gilding, and porcelain. 16 pieces: 8 knives and 8 forks. Baluster form with delicately embossed porcelain handles featuring a terminal handle. The handle is adorned on the front and back with elegant floral compositions, scattered flowers, and depictions of fruit in fine polychrome painting. Forks with three tines and knives with tapered curved blades of gilded silver. Partially marked with a 12-lot fineness mark, a stick hallmark, and a master's mark, primarily that of Johann Benjamin Langenwagen (active around 1750), with a Dutch tax mark from 1909. Length: 20.5 cm - 22 cm. Compare: Rosenberg, Volume II, No. 1676 and Volume IV, 7557; Amme, Historical Tableware, Catalog No. 570 (handle form). A rare 16-piece German Baroque tableware set with porcelain handles and gilded silver mounts by Johann Benjamin Langenwagen (active around 1750). Partially marked with a 12-lot fineness mark, a stick hallmark, and a master's mark. Dutch tax mark from 1909. German. Meissen and Dresden. Circa 1750.