French .800 Silver Gilt Tea Flatware Set, Jozan Paris 1836-47
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A cased French .800 silver gilt set of tea flatware, Minerva 2 purity, mark of Jozan, Paris, 1836-47 comprising 12 teaspoons, a pair of sugar tongs, a shell bowled caddy spoon, and a pierced swirl-fluted strainer, the spoons with pointed bowls and a rocaille and shell terminal, the other utensils with interlaced scrolls, in their brass inlaid ebonised wood fitted case. Weight 373g length 15 cm
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- Marrow Spoon - A spoon with a long handle and a narrow scoop shaped bowl, used to scoop and eat marrow from the hollow centre of roasted bones. Some marrow scoops are double ended with a different shaped bowl at each end.
- Flatware - An alternative name for items of cutlery, principally knives, forks and spoons, now generally used to describe sets of these implements. Nowadays it is mostly used when describing cutlery made of silver and silver plate.
It is less frequently used to describe all "flat' items of tableware, so that as well as cutlery the definition includes plates.
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