Lot 426
  • 426

A set of four Victorian silver entree dishes and covers, John Figg, London, 1855

Estimate
25,000 - 30,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • fully marked and numbered
  • Silver
  • length over handles 14 1/4 in.
  • 36.3cm
oval with gadrooned rims, ribbon-bound reeded handles springing from lion masks, coiled serpent handles above rosettes and beads, engraved with contemporary arms

Condition

good condition
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Catalogue Note

The arms are those of Waters of Sarnau, Co. Carmarthen impaling Hutchinson for Edward Waters M.D. Chester and his wife Georgina, youngest daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Lorenzo Hely Hutchinson, whom he married in 1837. He died in 1891.