A CONTINENTAL SILVER CENTREPIECE,
BEARING SPURIOUS AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MARKS, PROBABLY 20TH CENTURY,
The oval base on claw feet, applied rosettes & lozenge-centred anthemions to sides, the pierced oval central basket detachable from a palanquin borne by two gilt-metal camels ridden by monkeys wearing a tasselled tarboosh, 9¾ in. high (25 cm.), 13 in. long (33 cm.).
A CONTINENTAL SILVER CENTREPIECE,
BEARING SPURIOUS AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MARKS, PROBABLY 20TH CENTURY,
The oval base on claw feet, applied rosettes & lozenge-centred anthemions to sides, the pierced oval central basket detachable from a palanquin borne by two gilt-metal camels ridden by monkeys wearing a tasselled tarboosh, 9¾ in. high (25 cm.), 13 in. long (33 cm.).