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    European & Asian Dec. Arts inc. Silver, Rugs & Tribal Arts

    New York, East

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    4 June 1997

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    Lot 82

    A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT THREE-PIECE TABLE GARNITURE

    MAKER'S MARK OF F. ELKINGTON, 1872 AND 1873

    Price realised

    USD 12,650

    Estimate

    USD 4,000 - USD 6,000

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    A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT THREE-PIECE TABLE GARNITURE
    Maker's mark of F. Elkington, 1872 and 1873
    Comprising a centerpiece bowl and a pair of dessert-stands, (each lacking detachable glass bowl), the first with waisted rectangular platform twice engraved with coat-of-arms, crest and motto enclosed by foliate scrolls, on foliate headed lion's paw supports, issuing above the four ram's mask headed leg supports, applied to the oval openwork bellflower and palmette frame, hung with cast floral festoons twice centering Classical Tragedy and Comedy masks, with openwork pendant canopy of palmettes and scrolls, with acanthus bud finial, the stands each with circular frame, on tri-form base--the single 11in. (27.9cm.) long, the pair--7¾in. (19.6cm.) high, 168oz. (3)

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