An Irish Silver Nine-Basket Epergne, maker's mark JL script probably for John Lloyd, Dublin, 1775

the frame on four pierced and matted oval feet linked by an openwork apron of pales with flower and laurel borders and centered by a two-handled urn, the central basket pierced and chased with laurel swags, fitted with four matching hanging baskets and four shallow pierced bowls all chased to match and engraved with later crests

all small baskets with later discs engraved with crests each over a hole, reinforcements behind rims of small baskets, minor repairs to piercing, losses of vertical pales in two small baskets, apron with one repousse section and the others cast, reincorcement to rim of central basket
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