A GEORGE III SILVER EPERGNE, William Holmes, London, 1793

all raised on four openwork bracket supports centered by leaves, the domed oval base partly fluted and chased with band of running grapevine against matted ground, topped by a fully modeled heraldic finial centering four pilasters headed by ram's heads and four leaf-capped scroll branches topped by detachable oval dishes, the conforming central large basket with reeded upswung handles, basket and base engraved with contemporary arms and crest

branches need to be bent straight but not difficult; chasing still crisp; small baskets with oval rim bases slightly wavy and pushed up but not thru
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