Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
Live Virtual Auction, 11 - 12 July 2021
A Decorators' Cornucopia - Part II including Jewellery & Books
About this Item
A George V silver sugar basket, Mappin & Webb, London, 1920
of navette shape, the lobed body with pierced foliate decoration, foliate- and shell-carved rim, the sides applied with a pierced and scrollwork swing-handle, raised on four legs headed by stylised fleurs-de-lys, on stylised paw feet, blue glass liner, distress to blue liner, chips, split, stamped MAPPIN & WEBB, 20cm wide, 185g; and a pair of George III Fiddle pattern silver sugar tongs, London, 1781, the handle engraved with initials, 45g