An Austrian silver-gilt, enamel, and rock crystal ewer and stand, probably Hermann Ratzersdorfer, Vienna, circa 1900

triangular base below three fauns, each with an upraised arm and an enameled tortoise between his legs, supporting the body with rock crystal panels engraved with foliage, surrounded by strapwork enameled in red, white, and greens, monster-head spout, the neck with profile medallions in green wreaths, repeated on the stand around a crystal panel

central panel of stand probably glass rather than rock crystal, reinforcements at back of strapwork edges on stand
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This model was commonly made by Ratzersdorfer, such as the marked example sold Sotheby's, New York, 21 October 2009, lot 32.  An example of the ewer, descended in an English noble collection with a large group of marked Ratzersdorfer rock-crystal pieces, was similarly without maker's mark (see Christie's, London, 25 November 2008, lot 83 in the sequence lots 58 to 84).