THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A LARGE VICTORIAN PARCEL-GILT PUNCH BOWL
Details
A LARGE VICTORIAN PARCEL-GILT PUNCH BOWL
maker's mark of Charles Frederick Hancock, London, 1858
Circular and on shaped triangular base, the bowl with central baluster stem and three leaf capped lion-monopodia bracket supports and applied with three lion masks with floral swags between, with everted egg-and-dart rim, the base and bowl engraved with grotesque birds, harpies, demi-figures, masks and scrolling foliage in the Renaissance style, marked on base, supports and bowl - the bowl 21½in. (55cm.) diam.
329ozs. (1023grs.)
maker's mark of Charles Frederick Hancock, London, 1858
Circular and on shaped triangular base, the bowl with central baluster stem and three leaf capped lion-monopodia bracket supports and applied with three lion masks with floral swags between, with everted egg-and-dart rim, the base and bowl engraved with grotesque birds, harpies, demi-figures, masks and scrolling foliage in the Renaissance style, marked on base, supports and bowl - the bowl 21½in. (55cm.) diam.
329ozs. (1023grs.)
Provenance
A South American Collector, Sotheby's New York, 12-14 April 1984, lot 248
Literature
V. Brett, Sotheby's Directory of Silver, 1600-1940, London, no. 1423