Important South African & International Art, Furniture, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 13 October 2014
English Silver & Furniture, including a Collection of Portrait Miniatures
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A Victorian silver claret jug, Charles Thomas Fox & George Fox, London, 1851
the bulbous body moulded on two sides with a flame-shaped panel embellished with a pair of contesting dragons against a fretwork ground, the front with a further panel moulded with a scaly dragon and standard engraved with a crest, the handle modelled as a dragon, the cover with lizard finial, scroll thumbpiece and diaper borders, on a raised quatrefoil foot, 845g all in, 27cm high