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MARK OF ROBERT W. SMITH, DUBLIN, 1843
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A VICTORIAN IRISH SILVER EWER
MARK OF ROBERT W. SMITH, DUBLIN, 1843
The neck decorated to simulate the surface of a shell, the body chased with trailing flowers and pendent clusters of grapes, centred by a harp at front above a vacant cartouche, the lower body chased with scrolling foliage above fluting, on fluted foot edged with band of shamrocks, the handle modelled as a hound reclining between two oak branches, ivory insulators, the cover with heraldic finial of a tree with serpent wrapped around trunk, issuing from a coronet
13¾ in. high (35 cm.)
41.25 oz. (1299 gm.)
MARK OF ROBERT W. SMITH, DUBLIN, 1843
The neck decorated to simulate the surface of a shell, the body chased with trailing flowers and pendent clusters of grapes, centred by a harp at front above a vacant cartouche, the lower body chased with scrolling foliage above fluting, on fluted foot edged with band of shamrocks, the handle modelled as a hound reclining between two oak branches, ivory insulators, the cover with heraldic finial of a tree with serpent wrapped around trunk, issuing from a coronet
13¾ in. high (35 cm.)
41.25 oz. (1299 gm.)
Special notice
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