A pair of silver rosewater sprinklers

APPARENTLY UNMARKED, BATAVIA, 18TH CENTURY

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A pair of silver rosewater sprinklers
Apparently unmarked, Batavia, 18th Century
Each oviform body decorated with chased flowers rising to a slender knobbed neck chased with geometrical motifs, flowers and entwined flower-branches, with flower-shaped sprenkler, on a domed flower-chased base
38cm. (15in.) high
888gr. (2)

Lot Essay

An identical rosewater sprinkler, apparently unmarked, is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum.

Rose water sprinkler's were probably mostly used at funerals and weddings

See illustration

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