MARK OF WALTER & JOHN BARNARD, LONDON, 1887

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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SILVER FIGURAL SALT CELLARS
MARK OF WALTER & JOHN BARNARD, LONDON, 1887
Each cast as a courting figure in 18th century dress, standing on a fluted circular socle base with vacant cartouches, and holding an oval basket, silver-gilt to the interior, each marked on base, under basket and two nuts
8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) high; 34 oz. 10 dwt. (1,083 gr.)

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Lot Essay

These figural salt cellars were designed by French sculptor Louis-Victor Fréret (1801-1879) for Barnard’s in the 1860s. This pair of figures was dubbed the “High Life;” another pair of figures depicting a peasant couple was referred to as the “Low Life.” A pair of “High Life” figures from 1862 is illustrated in John P. Fallon, House of Barnard, A Notable Family of Manufacturing Silversmiths to the Trade, 2012, p. 406.

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