Lot 42
42
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A RARE IRISH GOLD MINIATURE TWO-HANDLED VASE, the detachable partly fluted spreading square base applied with a band of scrolls on a matted ground, with waisted neck and plain bracket handles, Dublin, 1829, 18 ct. maker's mark lacking

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A RARE IRISH GOLD MINIATURE TWO-HANDLED VASE, the detachable partly fluted spreading square base applied with a band of scrolls on a matted ground, with waisted neck and plain bracket handles, Dublin, 1829, 18 ct. maker's mark lacking
4in. (10cm.) high
(2ozs.)

Lot Essay

This unusual vase bears the marks introduced by the Dublin Assay Office in 1784 for items made of 18 ct. gold. It does not however bear a maker's mark as one would expect although this has possibly been overstruck by the Hibernia mark

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