A matching pair of silver gilt Fruit baskets in George 11 style
William Comyns, London, 1909/10
Shaped oval with border of fruiting vines and rococo scrolls, conforming swing handle and pierced fretwork sides, the ball and claw feet terminating in shells and fruiting vines
12¾ in. long (32.5 cm.)
103 oz. (3244 gm.)
Christies
Style & Spirit
Lot 185
04/02/2014
A Victorian silver and silver gilt dessert stand, the circular glass dish etched with an anthemion border, with a garland band, 9in (23cm), the stand with cast goats head on monopodia and anthemions, the triform base engraved a bull`s head with crossed axes crest and a central artichoke finial. Makers Stephen Smith & William Nicholson, London 1862. 20.8oz (676gm).
Lot 50
Netherhampton Saleroom
2/3/11
A Silver gilt bon bon dish of canted oblong form on a pedestal foot, the sides pierced and decorated with applied festoons and oval floral bosses.
London HM 1913
Christies SK
19/8/97.
15cm wide
10oz.
A pair of Victorian silver-gilt covered vases, possibly for spice or chestnuts, each with two finely chased handles in the form of Pan masks, with fluted shoulders and egg and dart rims, a band of acanthus arabesques within rope and beaded guilloche-scroll borders, a lower moulded band flanked by leaves and fluting on a square base, the leaf embossed covers with acanthus borders and bud finials.
London 1874 by Stephen Smith.
36cm high overall (14 in),
3715g gross (119.5 oz),
and a mahogany carrying case with retailers label.
Provenence; Walter A. McCreery, Bilton Park, Rugby, died 1922. General Sir Richard L. McCreery, G.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., Stowell Hill, Templecombe, Somerset, died 1967. Thence by descent.
Dreweatt Neate Donnington Priory
3-11-04
Lot 680