A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER TWO-BOTTLE CRUET STANDS
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER TWO-BOTTLE CRUET STANDS

MARK OF BENJAMIN LAVER, LONDON, 1782

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER TWO-BOTTLE CRUET STANDS
MARK OF BENJAMIN LAVER, LONDON, 1782
Each shaped oval, on four openwork scroll feet, the terminals with acanthus and shells, with grape vines below, each fitted with a pair of tripod stands supporting cut-glass bottles, the tripod legs with hoof feet, applied husks and satyr masks, the rings supporting the bottles gadrooned, the glass bottles with silver caps with grapevine and gadrooned finials, each engraved with a Baron's coronet, marked under bases and on frames, also with later French control marks
12½ in. (31.8 cm.) long; 84 oz. (2,610 gr.) weighable silver (2)
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 22 October 2004, lot 428

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