Soft-paste porcelain cutlery Twenty-one knives, handles in Mennecy or Chantilly soft-paste porcelain of the first half of the 18th century with chinoiserie decoration, blades in steel, as described: - 11 knives in two sets, the ferrules in vermeil and the blades changed in the 19th century, marked BOIN TABURET, Condition: one knife repaired and four cracks between ferrule and handle. - 10 knives of various models, two of them with sides, the original steel blades bearing 18th-century cutlery marks. Two bear legible discharges of Paris 1726 - 1732 and 1738 - 1744.