MAKER'S MARK OF GEORGE FOX FOR ELKINGTON, 1868

Details

An English silver wine jug
Maker's mark of George Fox for Elkington, 1868
In Egyptian style, the elongated neck with long spout and loop handle above an oviform body decorated with a frieze moulded with a winged globe and two threatening cobras
26cm. high (776gr.)
See illustration

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Lot Essay

See:
Fine Art Society London, Spring catalogue 1991, nr. 63 (ill.)

The present lot is dated earlier than a comparable example from 1873 by Stephen Smith. See the exhibition catalogue Victorian and Edwardian decorative arts, the Handley-Read collection, London 1972, p. 53, no. C46

See for the Egyptian model dating circa 1500 BC:
The monuments of Egypt, the Napoleontic edition, the complete archaeological plates from Description de l'Egypte, introduction by C.C. Gillespie and M. Dewachter, Old Saybrook 1987, Vol. III, pl. 66

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