21st Nov, 2024 11:00
European Works of Art, Objects & Silver
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A VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL SILVER INCENSE BOAT, THOMAS THOMASON & CO., BIRMINGHAM, 1877
navette shaped, the flat top with one half hinging open, on a hexafoil pedestal, engraved overall in Puginesque style with stylised foliate trefoil and quatrefoil motifs on matted grounds, 15cm long, 191g
Thomas Thomason had been a foreman for John Hardman & Co. in Birmingham, leaving to form a rival ecclesiastical supply company, on occasion apparently plagiarising designs Pugin had executed for his former employer.
Sold for £280
navette shaped, the flat top with one half hinging open, on a hexafoil pedestal, engraved overall in Puginesque style with stylised foliate trefoil and quatrefoil motifs on matted grounds, 15cm long, 191g
Thomas Thomason had been a foreman for John Hardman & Co. in Birmingham, leaving to form a rival ecclesiastical supply company, on occasion apparently plagiarising designs Pugin had executed for his former employer.
Auction: European Works of Art, Objects & Silver, 21st Nov, 2024
The auction ‘European Works of Art, Objects and Silver’ is one of our biannual live sales offering a range of ceramics, sculpture and works of art, silver from around the world, and objects of vertu.
Highlights in this sale include finely painted KPM plaques, Russian Easter eggs, a marble figure of a young woman by Cesare Lapini, Persian and Iraqi silver, Art Deco Puiforcat silver, Victorian naturalistic silver and fifty lots of silver boxes and smallwork from a private London collection.
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