A large and deep rock crystal dish with jewelled and enamelled silver-gilt mounts, Karl Rössler, Vienna, circa 1900

each rock crystal panel engraved with an urn of flowers or a mask flanked by griffins within scrollwork, the gilt mounts applied with pierced, jewelled and enamelled scrollwork friezes of masks alternating with fruit or griffins above an inner row of caryatids supportng baskets of fruit, maker's mark, Viennese control marks

Generally in good condition apart from one cracked panel visible in the image, other panels with natural flaws within the crystal, one with tiny chip at the corner, some minor scrapes to enamel. Beautiful piece.
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For a dish with identical ornament and engraved crystal panels but larger and flatter shape by Ratzersdorfer, see the exhibition catalogue, Macht & Pracht, Europas Glanz im 19. Jahrhundert, 2006, p.178. In general, such Italianate designs are dated around 1870, as later the designers and makers adopted Germanic Renaissance forms.