Information about silver and service used at the US State Banquet at Buckingham Palace on 24 May 2011.

China
Sweet plates - V R Minton Made for Queen Victoria 1876.

Fruit service - Tournai French dessert service 1787-1789.

Green sevre - soft paste porcelain made for Louis XVI (behind top table) 1790s.

Rockingham (from the Rockingham works in Yorkshire) dessert service made for William IV 1830 (first used on Queen Victoria’s coronation in 1838).

Gilt
In front of The Queen and The President:

St. George and the Dragon – A grand candelabrum carrying twelve branches. At the base are four boys bearing suitable Emblems of the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. John Bridge – 1832

To the right and left of The Queen:

Two large candelabras with three double and six single branches. One design is ‘The Graces gathering the Apples of the Hesperides and the Dragon watching’. The other ‘Mercury descending with the Infant Bacchus, and presenting him to the Attendant Nymphs.’ Both bases are enriched with three piping fauns and supported on double lion’s paw feet. Paul Storr - 1816.

Also on the table are four large dessert ornaments made for Pineapples originally. Used nowadays to hold flowers. With Pine leaf ornaments and branches carrying six vine leaf baskets from Bon-Bons. The bases are enriched with Dancing Bacchantes. Paul Storr – 1813.

The fish and main course plates – Date from 1805 – 1831 made by a variety of silversmiths. All commissioned by King George III.

Pair of spice boxes by Nicholas Clausen (used by The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh).

Set of 36 Triton salts. 25 by Paul Storr 1813/1814 and 11 by Philip Rundell 1819/1820 (used by The President of the United States and Mrs Obama).

Set of 36 Egyptian Salts (1802-1820).

Set of 12 Scroll Foot Cruets by Thomas Heming (1761).

Set of 36 Pepper Casters Garrads for George V.