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A EDWARD VII SILVER EWER AND BASIN
MAKER'S MARK OF SEBASTIAN HENRY GARRARD, LONDON, 1904
In the Mannerist taste, the ewer of vase-form on spreading foot, chased with strapwork, grotesque masks and foliage, the lower body with flutes, chased with strapwork and foliate garlands between female masks, with molded mid-band below a chased and applied full-figured mermaid with bifurcated tail sitting astride a satyr's mask, with caryatid scroll handle and beaded fishscale rim, the basin with conforming decoration of strapwork, scrolls and foliage, with alternating male and female river gods at intervals, the rim applied with elaborate pierced foliage, fully marked--the ewer 23¼in.(59cm.) high, the basin 27in.(68.5cm.) diameter
(342oz., 10644gr.) (2)
