This rare and early fish slice is made with the popular ‘Fiddle Thread’ pattern handle. It is engraved with an old English style ‘F’ on the front and with the family name ‘Freeman’ on the reverse. The apropos blade is magnificent. It is shaped and engraved quite whimsically as a fish. There is one almost identical pictured in Antique Silver Servers for the Dining Table by Seymour Rabinovitch who describes the blade as ‘the shape of a
comic rollicking dolphin with engraved features and scales, ruffed head and acanthus leaf. Superfluous, anatomically defective gills are represented by lunette piercing’ (p. 206).
For another similar example in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, see The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalog of American Silver by Phillip M. Johnston, p. 97.
This very rare fish serving slice is marked on the back ‘S.K/ 11.oz’ It measures 11.75 inches long, weighs 6.20 troy ounces and is in excellent antique condition.
Our Price: SOLD
Item code: A817
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