An Egyptian cast silver centrepiece, Alexandria, 19th century

the dish with a central embossed roundel depicting European neo-Renaissance-style cherubs within a scrolling border, the wide everted rim with a border of battle scenes on a punched ground, with attached figurative handles terminating beneath in long stylised peacock feathers, the stand with a foliate open-worked base with a figurehead to each corner, hallmarked on the underside of the dish

Schloss Oberdiessbach, Switzerland

recently cleaned, in very good overall condition, the surface of the bowl with a minor patch of pitting on the inner border, as viewed.
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