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THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
A SET OF FOUR VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT SALT-CELLARS AND SALT-SPOONS
MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD II, LONDON, 1857, THE SALT-SPOONS WITH MARK OF WILLIAM COOPER, LONDON, 1844
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A SET OF FOUR VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT SALT-CELLARS AND SALT-SPOONS
Mark of Robert Garrard II, London, 1857, the salt-spoons with mark of William Cooper, London, 1844
Each formed as a shell-shaped boat riding the waves, supported on two spouting dolphins, steered by a winged sea-putto clasping a trident and the tiller, the rudder chased with merman sounding a shell, engraved beneath the base with two crests, with detachable liners, with four salt-spoons with twig stem and foliage finial, the salt-cellars marked on rudder, shell, shell liner and trident, the spoons in bowl
6in. (15cm.) long; 121oz. (3765gr.) (8)
Mark of Robert Garrard II, London, 1857, the salt-spoons with mark of William Cooper, London, 1844
Each formed as a shell-shaped boat riding the waves, supported on two spouting dolphins, steered by a winged sea-putto clasping a trident and the tiller, the rudder chased with merman sounding a shell, engraved beneath the base with two crests, with detachable liners, with four salt-spoons with twig stem and foliage finial, the salt-cellars marked on rudder, shell, shell liner and trident, the spoons in bowl
6in. (15cm.) long; 121oz. (3765gr.) (8)
Provenance
The Executors of the late Miss Eva Goldman, Christie's, London, October 18, 1972, lot 116, dated as 1863
Literature
M. Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of Illustrated English and American Silver, 1985, p. 300, no. 3 (two)