Kaiser Franz Joseph I and Archduchess Marie Valerie – Breakfast Service,

Silver, porcelain and glass, comprising: carafe with stopper and beaker in colourless cut glass, mocha pot, water jug, sugar bowl and tray, soup spoon, coffee spoon, mocha spoon, meat fork, meat knife, silver sugar sprinkling spoon, coffee cup with saucer, 2 mocha cups with saucers, 1 large and 2 small porcelain dishes, all pieces with the monogram "MV" and archducal corona (Marie Valerie), in original leather case also monogrammed "MV" and with archducal corona, tray 38 x 37,5 cm, coffee pot height 14 cm, total weight of silver 2643 g, master’s mark J. C. K. = J. C. Klinkosch, Viennese Diana-head mark 1872-1922, also: 2 coffee cups, 1 mocha cup, 4 dishes (1 small dish damaged) all porcelain, (Lu)

Very fine breakfast service! It belonged to Archduchess Marie Valerie and was a present from her father Kaiser Franz Joseph I. The service offered here served as a breakfast service to the Kaiser during visits to Schloss Wallsee. Enclosed is a handwritten attestation from Count Georg Waldburg-Zeil, husband of Archduchess Elisabeth, the eldest daughter of Marie Valerie and favourite granddaughter of Kaiser Franz Joseph I. The attestation reads: ".... Whenever His Majesty Kaiser Franz Joseph stayed in Wallsee on a visit, the Service was used for his breakfast". Provenance: House of Hapsburg.

Esperto: Dr. Georg Ludwigstorff