A SILVER SPICETOWER, set on a circular domed base, engraved with vacant cartouches and petals, a cylindrical knobbed stem, the hexagonal two-tiered spice-section pierced with rozettes and windows, fitted with a hinged door and two galleries, the upper tier applied with wire-work pillars on the corners, surmounted by three leaf-shaped flags on turret-form bases, topped by a flowerhead-form finial, the pierced spire surmounted by a similar flag and flowerhead, Germany, probably 18th Century