Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 10 October 2016
English, Continental, Oriental and Cape Silver, Furniture and Decorative Arts
About this Item
Two silver sugar baskets, apparently unmarked, late 19th century
each pierced frame with rope borders raised on a spreading circular foot, applied with birds and ribbon-tied swags of flowers flanking a c-scroll cartouche engraved with the initial 'H', with hinged twist-turned handle, scratch weights 3-5, 5=5,245g all in, the taller 10,2cm high; fitted with blue glass liners
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