Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection
Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection
A SET OF EIGHT SWISS PARCEL-GILT SILVER RENAISSANCE STYLE DESSERT STANDS, BOSSARD & SOHN, ZURICH, CIRCA 1900
Auction Closed
December 11, 04:05 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A SET OF EIGHT SWISS PARCEL-GILT SILVER RENAISSANCE STYLE DESSERT STANDS, BOSSARD & SOHN, ZURICH, CIRCA 1900
in the Gothic taste, the shaped circular screw-on bowls with pineapple lobes centred by pomegranate knops, on spreading lobed trumpet shaped feet
23cm., 9in. high
7755gr., 249oz.
Probably Robert Valentine Berkeley (1853-1940) or Rose Berkeley (1861-1922)
Inventory, 1949, 'FRUIT TAZZE, a set of eight, Foreign, by Bossard [sic], 256 ozs.' in the Strong Room