Two Parcel-gilt Silver Services Fabergé, St. Petersburg, 1908-1917 each comprising two two-tine serving forks, a serving trowel, a cheese knife, an asparagus server, a cake knife, one set with handles decorated with ribbon-tied laurel garlands in the Classical taste, the other with scrolling interlaced foliate motifs, in original fitted boxes, 84 standard length of the cake knife: 19.5cm (7 11/16in). (14) Footnotes: Provenance Acquired by Ennio De Concini (1923 - 2008) in 1960s Thence by descent Ennio De Concini (1923-2008) was a famous Italian screenwriter and film director and winner of the Academy Award in 1962 for the 'Best Original Screenplay' for the celebrated classics Divorce Italian Style. He was the co-screenwriter of The Red Tent, a 1969 Soviet-Italian film starring Sean Connery based on the story of the 1928 mission to rescue Umberto Nobile and the other survivors of the crash of the airship Italia. Among the 60 films to De Concini's credit are The Twist (1976), Four of the Apocalypse (1975), War and Peace (1956) etc. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com