Important South African and International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 16 October 2017
Silver, Furniture, Ceramics & Glass
About this Item
London, England
A Victorian silver-gilt-mounted travelling dressing-table set, James Vickery, Wells & Lambe, London, 1866
rectangular, the leather-lined interior fitted with a mirror, seven glass bottles, three covered boxes, nail and medicine accoutrements, each moulded with the initials 'ACD', the side with a secret drawer enclosing two ivory-backed hairbrushes, a clothes-brush, an ivory glove-stretcher and a covered box, the front with a velvet-lined jewellery drawer, contained in a brass-bound simulated coromandel case, manufactured and retailed by Wells & Lambe, an embossed leather panel on the inside of the lid marked 'WELLS & LAMBE MANUFACTURERS TO THE QUEEN, COCKSPUR STREET', 21cm high, 34cm wide, 380g of weighable silver
*This lot is not suitable for export.
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