A George V silver cup and cover, Omar Ramsden, London, 1933

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

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Description

50.75cm, 20in high

in modified German sixteenth-century style, circular stepped foot with an applied floral and foliate frieze rising to an openwork stem and inverted pear-shaped body, the cover with a pierced frieze of stylised leaves, floral finial, signed Omar Ramsden Me Fecit

Catalogue Note

A cup to this design, one of a number of pieces owned by Queen Mary, was exhibited Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition of Old Silver... With Examples of Present Day Work, Seaford House, Belgrave Square, May 1 - June 8 1929, pl. II.