A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT CENTERPIECE MAKER'S MARK OF ELKINGTON & CO., BIRMINGHAM, 1888 On shaped oval flaring base raised on four fluted circular supports, applied with ram's heads and oval cartouches with chased foliate scrolls on a matted ground between, the shaped oval bowl with two hinged wreath handles, elaborately chased with a scene of Ceres amid a field of grain, holding a sheaf and sickle amid putti and, on the other side, with a naked maenad representing the grape harvest with a mask above, reclining amid attendant putti, with musical and marshall trophies between and applied at the shoulder with a stiff leaf band, the shaped rim with bacchic heads at intervals, with removable cut-glass liner with scalloped rim and domed silver-gilt flower grille with panels of overlapping archs with chased bellflowers between and surmounted by a figure of a standing muse holding laurel wreaths, marked on base, cover and figure also engraved Elkington & Co. --25 1/2in. (64.7cm.) high (266oz., 8294gr.)
A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT CENTERPIECE MAKER'S MARK OF ELKINGTON & CO., BIRMINGHAM, 1888 On shaped oval flaring base raised on four fluted circular supports, applied with ram's heads and oval cartouches with chased foliate scrolls on a matted ground between, the shaped oval bowl with two hinged wreath handles, elaborately chased with a scene of Ceres amid a field of grain, holding a sheaf and sickle amid putti and, on the other side, with a naked maenad representing the grape harvest with a mask above, reclining amid attendant putti, with musical and marshall trophies between and applied at the shoulder with a stiff leaf band, the shaped rim with bacchic heads at intervals, with removable cut-glass liner with scalloped rim and domed silver-gilt flower grille with panels of overlapping archs with chased bellflowers between and surmounted by a figure of a standing muse holding laurel wreaths, marked on base, cover and figure also engraved Elkington & Co. --25 1/2in. (64.7cm.) high (266oz., 8294gr.)
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