An Edwardian Silver Novelty Dish
AN EDWARDIAN SILVER NOVELTY SWEETMEAT DISH, WILLIAM COMYNS & SONS, LONDON, 1907
formed as a wheelbarrow, the bird and scroll foliate engraved and pierced sides with applied openwork cast scroll foliate rim, the leg brackets and wheel similarly cast
33cm long, 870gr (27oz)
For a similar Comyns wheelbarrow but with glass body, see Christie`s, London, 27 November 2012, lot 572, and for a Comyns wine trolley of very similar form see Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, 20 November 2012, lot 131.
Matthew Barton
03/06/2014
lot 180
03/06/2014