Lot 810
  • 810

A Victorian silver assembled table garniture, Hunt & Roskell and successors, London, 1869/82/94

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • the centerpiece by John Hunt & Roskell, 1869; the cendelabra by Robert Roskell, Alan Roskell & John Mortimer Hunt, 1882, and the sticks by Alfred & Arthur Henry Benson, 1894
  • silver, cut-glass
  • height of candelabra 28 in.; height of candlesticks 12 1/4 in.
  • 71 cm; 31 cm
comprising a centerpiece with cut-glass bowl and a pair of six-light candelabra, engraved CM under ducal coronet, and a set of four candlesticks, all with circular bases on paired lion-paw feet, partly ribbed shafts decorated with stiff leaves and berries above acanthus rosette

Condition

one candelabra nozzle unmarked, several stuck, glass replaced, otherwise good
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