A pair of acid etched and gilt decorated globular bowls in the Japanese taste

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A pair of acid etched and gilt decorated globular bowls in the Japanese taste
with richly gilt rope twist rims and bracket feet, gilt in burnished shades with fish and aquatic plants reserved on an acid-etched stylised wave ground, acid stamp registration mark 41925 for the London retailers Wittman and Roth, 26th January 1886, the glass perhaps Continental (one foot broken and restuck) -- 11.5cm. high; and a George III silver-gilt sauce ladle and sugar sifter later chased with fish and aquatic plants, hallmarked for London 1790-91, in velvet-lined fitted case
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