A GERMAN PAIR OF SILVER FRUIT STANDS WITH CUT GLASS BOWLS, makers' mark of Johan Wilhelm David Friedrich, Berlin, circa 1850, each with openwork shaped quatrefoil highly raised base decorated with rocaille scrolls and trelliswork, supporting differing seated figure, one a Classically garbed girl protecting a flame rising from a calyx, the other with boy holding a fruited grapevine, each in front of a flowering frond supporting the openwork shaped ovoid frame with conforming openwork decoration, with two circular bowls stepped bands below diamonds, with cut scalloped rim--the stands 12½in. (31.7cm.) high, the bowls 11in. (27.9cm.) wide, the silver 114oz. (2)

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A GERMAN PAIR OF SILVER FRUIT STANDS WITH CUT GLASS BOWLS, makers' mark of Johan Wilhelm David Friedrich, Berlin, circa 1850, each with openwork shaped quatrefoil highly raised base decorated with rocaille scrolls and trelliswork, supporting differing seated figure, one a Classically garbed girl protecting a flame rising from a calyx, the other with boy holding a fruited grapevine, each in front of a flowering frond supporting the openwork shaped ovoid frame with conforming openwork decoration, with two circular bowls stepped bands below diamonds, with cut scalloped rim--the stands 12½in. (31.7cm.) high, the bowls 11in. (27.9cm.) wide, the silver 114oz. (2)

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