Lot 2201
  • 2201

A George III silver two-bottle cruet frame, John Scofield, London, 1789

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • marked on base, bottle support, and bottle mounts
  • length 13 1/4 in.
  • 33.7 cm
boat-form, openwork acanthus feet, reeded borders, the surface bright-cut with foliage, fitted with two cut-glass bottles with matched silver mounts

Literature

George Parker, “Lighting and Dining in the Eighteenth Century: Silver Pewter, Brass and Bronze,” Wisconsin Academy Review, 43: 3 (Summer 1997), 17.

Condition

engravings softened, the bottle support lacking one screw on base, glass bottles with some surface imperfections and minor nicks at angles, one mount with small split to lower rim, otherwise good condition
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