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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED VERNIS MARTIN TWO-HANDLED ORNAMENTAL CUPS
MAKER'S MARK OF WILLIAM COOPER, LONDON, 1845/6, RETAILED BY JAMES HARVEY & CO.
Of circular form on spreading domed bases, each raised on four openwork scroll feet, elaborately chased with entwined scrolls enclosing panels of diaperwork and matting, rising to baluster stems with simialr decoration and openwork scroll brackets, the lower part of the bowls engraved with scrolls and diaperwork, the sides painted on copper with scenes of dwarfs merrymaking, each with caryatid scroll handles, the interiors applied with an applied molded scalloped rim with portrait medallions with scrolls and matting between, marked on upper and lower bowls, also stamped HARVEY & CO.--9¾in.(25cm.) high
(gross weight 64oz., 2018gr.) (2)
