Lot 380
  • 380

An Irish silver epergne/cruet, Robert Breading, Dublin, 1795

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • cut-glass, silver
  • the tray 50.2cm., 19 3/4 in. long
octagonal pierced gallery tray bright-cut engraved and crested, four scroll branches each supporting an octagonal dish with a larger octagonal central dish similarly engraved twice with a coat-of-arms, with fourteen various sized silver-mounted glass bottles and jars, ten engraved with matching crest, the majority Fenton Creswick and Co., Sheffield, circa 1796, together with eight silver condiment labels variously inscribed, the underside of the base engraved with scratch weight

Catalogue Note

The arms are those of Hopson with another in pretence.