Lot 342
  • 342

A set of four Victorian gilded glass bottles with silver-gilt covers, Charles Rawlings and William Summers, London, 1845

Estimate
2,500 - 3,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • 14cm. high; 5½in.
square with bevelled shoulders, gilt decoration incorporating c-scrolls, armorials and ciphers, glass stoppers, silver-gilt covers formed as coronets

Provenance

Lady Sarah Sophia Fane, Countess of Jersey

Condition

Very decorative and generally in extremely good order. Each silver gilt lid is crisp, each glass stopper is present and correct, each bottle is basically in good order with some minor chips to bases and one minor chip to the shoulder corner. The gilding is rubbed to all the sides of all the bottles. Complete and decorative.
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