Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection

Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection

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A SICILIAN SILVER EWER AND BASIN, MAKER'S MARK GFZ ALSO STRUCK V AND A SWAN, MID-19TH CENTURY

Auction Closed

December 11, 04:05 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,500 GBP

Lot Details

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A SICILIAN SILVER EWER AND BASIN, MAKER'S MARK GFZ ALSO STRUCK V AND A SWAN, MID-19TH CENTURY


the shaped circular basin embossed and chased with shells, acorns and foliage, flat-chased with exuberant plume-like flowers and leafage on matting, the ewer also flat-chased with lettering SM à MSd, the later glass liner similarly decorated

basin: 36cm., 14in. diameter

65oz. 18dwt., 2049gr.

Inventory, 1949, 'ROSEWATER DISH AND EWER, engraved, the dish fitted with a Lalique liner [?], foreign, 55 ozs' in the Strong Room