Important South African & International Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts

Live Auction, 12 October 2015

English, Cape and Colonial Silver, Decorative Arts and Furniture
  • A silver lighthouse caster, with the mark of the London Assay Office, 1995


Lot Estimate
ZAR 6 000 - 8 000
Auction Catalogue

About this Item

A silver lighthouse caster, with the mark of the London Assay Office, 1995
with bayonet fitting, the cylindrical body pierced with a border of flower-filled baskets and c-scrolls above an applied reeded girdle and a border pierced with foliate motifs, the cover similarly decorated with a stepped gadrooned top and bud-shaped finial, raised on a conforming spreading foot, with later blue glass liner, 560g all in, 21cm high


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