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A PAIR OF FINE VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT WINE COOLERS
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN HUNT & ROBERT ROSKELL, LONDON, 1866
Each of vase-shaped form on circular domed foot above four acanthus scroll and rocaille supports, the foot chased with a trailing foliate vine, below an applied acanthus knop, the body chased with vertical lobes below a scene of dancing muses and satyrs leading the chariot of the goddess of Abundance upon a matted ground, with two elaborate handles each formed as a putto standing upon a foliate vine and holding a wine cup, issuing from grapevine, below an everted tied reed rim applied with grapevine, marked on sides--15in.(38.2cm.) high
(266oz., 8277gr.) (2)
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN HUNT & ROBERT ROSKELL, LONDON, 1866
Each of vase-shaped form on circular domed foot above four acanthus scroll and rocaille supports, the foot chased with a trailing foliate vine, below an applied acanthus knop, the body chased with vertical lobes below a scene of dancing muses and satyrs leading the chariot of the goddess of Abundance upon a matted ground, with two elaborate handles each formed as a putto standing upon a foliate vine and holding a wine cup, issuing from grapevine, below an everted tied reed rim applied with grapevine, marked on sides--15in.(38.2cm.) high
(266oz., 8277gr.) (2)