A CRESTED SILVER-MOUNTED CLARET-JUG, the flattened oviform body engraved with a crest (a leopard seated erect regardant) within an oval cartouche flanked by scantily draped nymphs holding tritons and with scrolling foliage, vases of flowers, berried foliage and bead swags above a cherub's mask, the circular foot with a band of dots, the later silver mount to the neck moulded and chased with a bearded mask and foliage-scrolls, with silver hinged cover and scroll handle, the glass circa 1870, the silver with maker's mark for James Vickery, London, 1891 | Christie's

Lot 6

A CRESTED SILVER-MOUNTED CLARET-JUG, the flattened oviform body engraved with a crest (a leopard seated erect regardant) within an oval cartouche flanked by scantily draped nymphs holding tritons and with scrolling foliage, vases of flowers, berried foliage and bead swags above a cherub's mask, the circular foot with a band of dots, the later silver mount to the neck moulded and chased with a bearded mask and foliage-scrolls, with silver hinged cover and scroll handle, the glass circa 1870, the silver with maker's mark for James Vickery, London, 1891

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A CRESTED SILVER-MOUNTED CLARET-JUG, the flattened oviform body engraved with a crest (a leopard seated erect regardant) within an oval cartouche flanked by scantily draped nymphs holding tritons and with scrolling foliage, vases of flowers, berried foliage and bead swags above a cherub's mask, the circular foot with a band of dots, the later silver mount to the neck moulded and chased with a bearded mask and foliage-scrolls, with silver hinged cover and scroll handle, the glass circa 1870, the silver with maker's mark for James Vickery, London, 1891
22.5cm. high overall

Lot Essay

See Hugh Wakefield, op. cit., p. 91, pl. 90 for a jug purchased from the London dealers W. P. & G. Phillips and Pearce perhaps engraved by the same hand as the present example

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