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BY HERMAN RATZERSDORFER, VIENNA, CIRCA 1880
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A Viennese enamel and silver ewer
By Herman Ratzersdorfer, Vienna, Circa 1880
With a shaped spreading rim above a waisted neck, flanked to each side by a scroll handle headed by a female bust with a satyr mask terminal, the tapering ovoid body depicting The Rape of the Sabines, on a tapering stepped socle, above a spreading domed circular base, flanked to each side by a monopodiae griffin with scrolling foliage terminal
16.7/8 in. (43 cm.) high
By Herman Ratzersdorfer, Vienna, Circa 1880
With a shaped spreading rim above a waisted neck, flanked to each side by a scroll handle headed by a female bust with a satyr mask terminal, the tapering ovoid body depicting The Rape of the Sabines, on a tapering stepped socle, above a spreading domed circular base, flanked to each side by a monopodiae griffin with scrolling foliage terminal
16.7/8 in. (43 cm.) high