21st Nov, 2024 11:00
European Works of Art, Objects & Silver
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TWO SILVER CHRISTENING MUGS, BOTH LONDON
one Victorian example chased with shaped panels, set to the front with an oval silver electrotype panel of a winter scene with a figure beside a brazier, reverse of panel inscribed 'REILY & STORER / Oct 4 1848', to the sides with oval bosses, one vacant, one with worn crest and initials, Reily & Storer, 1848, 11cm high, the other William IV example with baluster body and short pedestal, chased with a rocaille cartouche engraved 'Antony' flanked by flowering foliage and scrolls, John James Whiting, 1833, 9.5cm high; 302g
Sold for £300
one Victorian example chased with shaped panels, set to the front with an oval silver electrotype panel of a winter scene with a figure beside a brazier, reverse of panel inscribed 'REILY & STORER / Oct 4 1848', to the sides with oval bosses, one vacant, one with worn crest and initials, Reily & Storer, 1848, 11cm high, the other William IV example with baluster body and short pedestal, chased with a rocaille cartouche engraved 'Antony' flanked by flowering foliage and scrolls, John James Whiting, 1833, 9.5cm high; 302g
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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Viewing Times:
18 Nov 2024 10:00 - 20:00
19 Nov 2024 10:00 - 17:00
20 Nov 2024 10:00 - 17:00
