Lot 412
  • 412

A Victorian silver assembled table garniture, Hunt & Roskell and successors, London, 1869 / 1882 / 1894

Estimate
90,000 - 120,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • the centerpiece by John Hunt & Robert Roskell, 1869; the candelabra by Robert Roskell, Alan Roskell & John Mortimer Hunt, 1882, and the sticks by Alfred & Arthur Henry Benson, 1894
  • Silver, glass
  • height of candelabra 28 in.; height of candlesticks 12 1/4 in.
  • 71, 31cm
comprising: a circular centerpiece with cut-glass bowl and a pair of six-light candelabra, engraved CM under ducal coronet, and a set of four smaller candlesticks, all with circular bases on paired paw feet, partly ribbed shafts rising from acanthus collars above fluted bands

Condition

one candelabra nozzle unmarked, several stuck, glass replaced, otherwise good
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