A Continental parcel-gilt silver, champleve enamel and niello inkstandunmarked, possibly French circa 1860 A vase-shaped urn centrepiece, with domed detachable cover topped with a cast butterfly finial, a glass ink liner within, mounted on a circular stand fitted with three polychrome enamelled butterflies, the whole decorated with niello scroll and foliate ornament, parcel-gilt and pinprick engraving, a finely serrated edge to the base, height 14cm, diameter 20cm, weight total 20oz.
A Continental parcel-gilt silver, champleve enamel and niello inkstandunmarked, possibly French circa 1860 A vase-shaped urn centrepiece, with domed detachable cover topped with a cast butterfly finial, a glass ink liner within, mounted on a circular stand fitted with three polychrome enamelled butterflies, the whole decorated with niello scroll and foliate ornament, parcel-gilt and pinprick engraving, a finely serrated edge to the base, height 14cm, diameter 20cm, weight total 20oz.
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