A pair of Austrian silver-gilt, enamel and gem-set ewers, attributed to Hermann Ratzersdorfer of Vienna, circa 1880

in the style of David Altenstetter, each ewer with three panels of basse-taille varicolor enamel in chased gilt mounts, supported by three satyrs, with monster spout and handle, some enamel loss

as noted re: enamel loss and one basse-taille panel dented with heavier loss, small elements in other places, otherwise good, nice quality
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Although this example is unmarked, an almost identical ewer by Ratzerdorfer was advertised by John Jaffa in The Magazine Antiques, April 2006.  A marked rock crystal version is shown in Macht & Pracht, p. 13, another marked one was with John Jaffa in May, 2012, and one attributed to Ratzerdorfer was part of the group "collected by the American wife of an English aristocrat" in the 1890s, sold Christie's, London, November 25, 2008, lot 83.