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A VICTORIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER MIRROR PLATEAU AND SUITE OF COMPOTES
MAKER'S MARK OF WILLIAM GIBSON & JOHN LANGMAN, THE COMPOTES, LONDON, 1888, THE PLATEAU BIRMINGHAM, 1890
The graduated compotes each on triform pedestal supports with beaded bands, with an applied pierced shell and scroll apron, rising to a knopped fluted stem applied with three silver-gilt winged seahorses, surmounted by a dish with a beaded border, together with three glass dishes; the mirror plateau on four honeysuckle scroll and shell supports, below a dentilated rim, the three sections bordered by a beaded band, fully marked--length of plateau 32in.(81.2cm.)
(weighable silver 118oz., 3696gr.) (3)
MAKER'S MARK OF WILLIAM GIBSON & JOHN LANGMAN, THE COMPOTES, LONDON, 1888, THE PLATEAU BIRMINGHAM, 1890
The graduated compotes each on triform pedestal supports with beaded bands, with an applied pierced shell and scroll apron, rising to a knopped fluted stem applied with three silver-gilt winged seahorses, surmounted by a dish with a beaded border, together with three glass dishes; the mirror plateau on four honeysuckle scroll and shell supports, below a dentilated rim, the three sections bordered by a beaded band, fully marked--length of plateau 32in.(81.2cm.)
(weighable silver 118oz., 3696gr.) (3)