A VICTORIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER NINE-PIECE TABLE GARNITURE MARK OF ELKINGTON AND COMPANY LIMITED, BIRMINGHAM, 1862 Comprising a large centrepiece, a pair of oval fruit stands, four circular dessert stands and a pair of small oval dessert stands, each on bracket feet, chased in relief with flowers, foliage, wheat ears and Bacchics masks on matted ground, the centrepiece with raised centre chased with allegorical figures of Summer flanked by two applied figures of a male and female fauns supporting the fluted oval basket on crossed thyrsi, the oval fruit stands with raised centre chased with two bacchanals and applied with two child fauns holding aloft a bowl, the four circular stands with stem formed as a crouching bacchanal faun supporting a dish holder and the pair of small oval stands with dish supported on the arms of two seated fauns, all with later etched shaped glass dish and fitted with wooden bases, marked on hinges, under base, on base rim, finial under basket, basket, basket rim, figures, hinges, bowl holders, liner and nuts 35 ½ in. (90 cm.) long; 13 in. (33 cm.) long; 9 in. (23 cm.) high overall; 5 in. (12.5 cm.) high weight of weighable silver 5,153 gr. (165 oz. 13 dwt.)
A VICTORIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER NINE-PIECE TABLE GARNITURE MARK OF ELKINGTON AND COMPANY LIMITED, BIRMINGHAM, 1862 Comprising a large centrepiece, a pair of oval fruit stands, four circular dessert stands and a pair of small oval dessert stands, each on bracket feet, chased in relief with flowers, foliage, wheat ears and Bacchics masks on matted ground, the centrepiece with raised centre chased with allegorical figures of Summer flanked by two applied figures of a male and female fauns supporting the fluted oval basket on crossed thyrsi, the oval fruit stands with raised centre chased with two bacchanals and applied with two child fauns holding aloft a bowl, the four circular stands with stem formed as a crouching bacchanal faun supporting a dish holder and the pair of small oval stands with dish supported on the arms of two seated fauns, all with later etched shaped glass dish and fitted with wooden bases, marked on hinges, under base, on base rim, finial under basket, basket, basket rim, figures, hinges, bowl holders, liner and nuts 35 ½ in. (90 cm.) long; 13 in. (33 cm.) long; 9 in. (23 cm.) high overall; 5 in. (12.5 cm.) high weight of weighable silver 5,153 gr. (165 oz. 13 dwt.)
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