A VICTORIAN SILVER-PLATED THREE-PIECE TABLE GARNITURE, maker's mark of Elkington & Co., each with base underside with applied plaque PUBLISHED BY ELKINGTON & CO. enclosing JUNE 1866, base underside with registration mark for March 11, 1865, the base rim with Elkington date mark for 1867, comprising a pair of seven light candelabra on trefoil base and a centerpiece, with central cut glass bowl and six smaller, on triangular base, each in the Egyptian Revival style, each platform issuing three satyr feet with foliate apron between, supporting three-handled urn flanked by three winged harpies, the candelabra with scrolling and paterae branches with bombe sockets, with central standard, with detachable nozzles (one lacking) and topped by flame form finial, with anthemion and Vitruvian wave embellishments--25in. (63.5cm.) high, the centerpiece with mask headed supports and differing foliate apron, varying slightly, the three bifurcated branches issuing each two circular frames for dishes, each dish cut with anthemion and divided by trefoil, with scalloped and pointed rim, centering central anthemion clad frame with conforming centerpiece bowl --25in. (63.5cm.) high, (63.5oz.) (3)

Property from the Estate of JOHN C. BELL, JR.

Details

A VICTORIAN SILVER-PLATED THREE-PIECE TABLE GARNITURE, maker's mark of Elkington & Co., each with base underside with applied plaque PUBLISHED BY ELKINGTON & CO. enclosing JUNE 1866, base underside with registration mark for March 11, 1865, the base rim with Elkington date mark for 1867, comprising a pair of seven light candelabra on trefoil base and a centerpiece, with central cut glass bowl and six smaller, on triangular base, each in the Egyptian Revival style, each platform issuing three satyr feet with foliate apron between, supporting three-handled urn flanked by three winged harpies, the candelabra with scrolling and paterae branches with bombe sockets, with central standard, with detachable nozzles (one lacking) and topped by flame form finial, with anthemion and Vitruvian wave embellishments--25in. (63.5cm.) high, the centerpiece with mask headed supports and differing foliate apron, varying slightly, the three bifurcated branches issuing each two circular frames for dishes, each dish cut with anthemion and divided by trefoil, with scalloped and pointed rim, centering central anthemion clad frame with conforming centerpiece bowl --25in. (63.5cm.) high, (63.5oz.) (3)

Lot Essay

Cf: Jones, K. Crisp, Editor, The Silversmiths of Birmingham and their marks 1750-1980, N.A.G. Press, London, 1981, see illustration no. 165 for a conforming silver example of the centerpiece, by the same, 1880.

More from European Decorative Arts and Furniture

View All