Lot 141
  • 141

An extemsive gilt-decorated glassware service, most le Rosey, Paris, circa 1870

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • most pieces signed in gilt le Rosey Paris, three finger bowls signed Honesdale and six unmarked
  • Glass
  • height of carraffes 8 3/4 in.
  • 22.2cm
each engraved with Renaissance style strapwork terminating in monster heads and enclosing monogram WA, comprising:
fourteen water glasses
eleven wine glasses
twelve sherry glasses
thirty-two port glasses
four liqueur glasses
ten carafes
thirty-seven finger bowls
twenty-five under-plates
145 pieces

Condition

glasses mostly good with strong gilding, two plates with small rim chips and several with loss of gilding to edges and one with a scratc on base
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