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MARKED 800 AND FRIEDEBERG, LATE 19TH CENTURY (BELOW LEGAL ALLOY)
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A German silver-mounted glass claret-jug
Marked 800 and Friedeberg, late 19th Century (below legal alloy)
Ovoid, on reeded circular pedestal foot chased with bands of strapwork and beading on a textured ground, with compressed knop chased with vertical lobes and stylised flowers, the glass body etched with scrolling foliage and flowers above a vertically cut border, the baroque silver straps to each side formed as oval cartouches held within guilloche, scroll and urn borders, a grotesque animal mask above, the cartouches each engraved with initials, the straps to the front and back chased with diaperwork and rosettes, the collar mount a beaded and scroll guilloche border, beneath reeded bands, the neck chased with baroque scrolls on a textured ground, the double-scroll handle cast with strapwork, vacant cartouches, foliage, lozenges, beading and husking with a grotesque mask terminal, the helmet-shaped spout with hinged cover, similarly chased with grotesques, rosettes, scrolls, strapwork and vacant cartouches, and applied with cast scroll finial with scroll brackets and stylised pomegranate
37.5cm. high
marked on footrim
Marked 800 and Friedeberg, late 19th Century (below legal alloy)
Ovoid, on reeded circular pedestal foot chased with bands of strapwork and beading on a textured ground, with compressed knop chased with vertical lobes and stylised flowers, the glass body etched with scrolling foliage and flowers above a vertically cut border, the baroque silver straps to each side formed as oval cartouches held within guilloche, scroll and urn borders, a grotesque animal mask above, the cartouches each engraved with initials, the straps to the front and back chased with diaperwork and rosettes, the collar mount a beaded and scroll guilloche border, beneath reeded bands, the neck chased with baroque scrolls on a textured ground, the double-scroll handle cast with strapwork, vacant cartouches, foliage, lozenges, beading and husking with a grotesque mask terminal, the helmet-shaped spout with hinged cover, similarly chased with grotesques, rosettes, scrolls, strapwork and vacant cartouches, and applied with cast scroll finial with scroll brackets and stylised pomegranate
37.5cm. high
marked on footrim
Special notice
Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.
Sale room notice
Please note that the estimate should read NLG 4500-5500 and not as stated in the catalogue