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A superb pair of Victorian…
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Melbourne
Date:
8-Apr-2024
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A superb pair of Victorian sterling silver-gilt figural comports, 1857 London, with maker's mark for John Samuel Hunt each on trefoil base cast with flowers and scrolls, rising to an entwined tendril stem flanked by figure, with a summer girl holding a basket of flowers, and a winter boy on ice skates holding a stick, standing upon a rocky outcrop and surmounted by a pierced circular basket formed from fruiting vine tendrils, with clear glass dishes, each marked on figures, the rim of the bases further stamped 'Hunt & Roskell late Storr & Mortimer' and numbered respectively 8721 and 8741. Silver weight 3556g height 36 cm, diameter 24 cm
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Unclassified