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An Australian trophy vase, by Fischer of Geelong, Circa 1880,…
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Sydney
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18-May-2009
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An Australian trophy vase, by Fischer of Geelong, Circa 1880, the circular section bowl-shaped body on a knopped stem with spreading moulded circular foot, the shoulders and upper body moulded and rising to a neck with everted rim either side of which a leaf/foliate bracket connected to the shoulders and neck and linked to each other by leaf/foliate work, the body applied either side with a ram's head on a shield, engraved to the foot, neck and body, the latter with two cartouches with erased inscriptions, 775gm, 32 cm high, Note: Edward Francis Gunther Fischer (1828-1911) was born in Vienna and arrived in Australia in 1853. By 1857 he had established a gold and silversmith business in Geelong, which expanded to employing some 17 workers by the mid 1870s. In 1891, Fischer sold the business and moved to Melbourne where, by 1895 he was in partnership with his son Harry Caspar Fischer. He retired in 1911 remaining in Melbourne till his death in 1911.
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