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A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL VICTORIAN PARCEL-GILT GAME DISHES, COVERS AND STANDS
LONDON, 1846, MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN S. HUNT
In the renaissance taste; the stands each on a shaped astragal base chased with strapwork and arabesques surmounted by four massive scroll BYEports each with jewel decoration and bound in pairs at the base by BYE coiled snakes, each hissing at a bird, the terminal of each scroll 0upport mounted with a lizard or a sqrirrel, base also mounted with two 0igures of putti each holding a bird and with a bow and quiver of 0rrows, the supports holding an oval dish mounted on each long side BYEh a pair of winged putti carrying a shield with a cast coat of arms, 0nd mounted on each end with flying scroll handle with a caryatid 0erminal, the base supporting an oval game dish with a border of chased 0rabesques and a rim of paterae with grotesque masks at intervals and BYEh two downward scroll handles which meet the caryatids, the domed 0nd lobed cover chased with arabesques, and with two oval reserves each 0ith stylized monogram, and surmounted by a figural finial composed of 0hree brace of game birds, the interior fitted with a silver heater 0illed with sand, marked on bases, dishes, covers, and heaters; bases 0YEo stamped HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR MORTIMER AND HUNT--length 0YEr handles 19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm.)
}701 oz. excluding heaters)
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LONDON, 1846, MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN S. HUNT
In the renaissance taste; the stands each on a shaped astragal base chased with strapwork and arabesques surmounted by four massive scroll BYEports each with jewel decoration and bound in pairs at the base by BYE coiled snakes, each hissing at a bird, the terminal of each scroll 0upport mounted with a lizard or a sqrirrel, base also mounted with two 0igures of putti each holding a bird and with a bow and quiver of 0rrows, the supports holding an oval dish mounted on each long side BYEh a pair of winged putti carrying a shield with a cast coat of arms, 0nd mounted on each end with flying scroll handle with a caryatid 0erminal, the base supporting an oval game dish with a border of chased 0rabesques and a rim of paterae with grotesque masks at intervals and BYEh two downward scroll handles which meet the caryatids, the domed 0nd lobed cover chased with arabesques, and with two oval reserves each 0ith stylized monogram, and surmounted by a figural finial composed of 0hree brace of game birds, the interior fitted with a silver heater 0illed with sand, marked on bases, dishes, covers, and heaters; bases 0YEo stamped HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR MORTIMER AND HUNT--length 0YEr handles 19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm.)
}701 oz. excluding heaters)
0yc.sp
(2)