Sentences with phrase «pieces of silver cutlery»

We'll give you a clue — it involves 1,200 glasses, 2,000 pieces of silver cutlery, a 175 ft table, 100 footmen, a whole lot of food, and probably a whole cellar of wine!

If you're planning a dinner party, spare a thought for the staff at Windsor Castle who have to lay out 1,200 glasses, 2,000 pieces of silver cutlery and 200 napkins - it takes three weeks just to prepare it!

Not exact matches

In eight years, from 17 ancient wrecks, McKee has brought up 40 tons: a 17 - foot, 2 1/2 - ton anchor; 18 cannons; over 400 cannonballs; flintlocks, pistols and swords; gold doubloons; silver pieces - of - eight; wine - jug, rum - bottle and china - plate fragments; tackle blocks; pewter plates and cups; belt and shoe buckles and worn boot heels; cutlery, inkwells, figurines and religious medals; copper and silver ingots; a ton of lead; gold rings, earrings and brooches; human teeth, beef bones and elephant tusks.

The set - pieces of black comedy, like the crucial dinner party which Stevens manages to handle perfectly, never disturbing the Hitler - appeasing grandees upstairs, while his father dies below stairs are as shiny as the silver cutlery.

Previously exhibited in the inaugural exhibition at the National Arts Center in Tokyo, Rorschach Accidental III (2006) consists of suspended silver plated objects such as candelabras, musical instruments, and pieces of cutlery that Parker has flattened using a 250 - ton industrial press.