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The arms are those of Frederick
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PROPERTY FROM A POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA COLLECTION
A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT CENTERPIECE BOWL
MARK OF JOHN HUNT AND ROBERT ROSKELL, LONDON, 1870
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A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT CENTERPIECE BOWL
Mark of John Hunt and Robert Roskell, London, 1870
Shaped oval, on four rocaille and scroll feet, the massive openwork sides and handles formed of intertwining scrolls and grapevine, with fully-modelled putto holding aloft a wreath and centering a shield, engraved on one side with monogram and on the other with a coat-of-arms, crest and motto, with gilt-metal fitted liner, marked on side and each putto wing, also stamped under base HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR & MORTIMER
20½in. (52cm.) long; 157oz. (4889gr.)
Mark of John Hunt and Robert Roskell, London, 1870
Shaped oval, on four rocaille and scroll feet, the massive openwork sides and handles formed of intertwining scrolls and grapevine, with fully-modelled putto holding aloft a wreath and centering a shield, engraved on one side with monogram and on the other with a coat-of-arms, crest and motto, with gilt-metal fitted liner, marked on side and each putto wing, also stamped under base HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR & MORTIMER
20½in. (52cm.) long; 157oz. (4889gr.)