A FINE GEORGE IV SILVER AND CUT-GLASS EPERGNE
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A FINE GEORGE IV SILVER AND CUT-GLASS EPERGNE

MARK OF BENJAMIN SMITH, LONDON, 1829

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A FINE GEORGE IV SILVER AND CUT-GLASS EPERGNE
MARK OF BENJAMIN SMITH, LONDON, 1829
On four lion's-paw feet with acanthus leaf-clad legs and lion's-mask terminals, with a leaf-clad and scroll lower apron, the upper apron a garland of grapevine, with central ring of honeysuckle, supporting a cut-glass bowl, and eight acanthus-clad branches holding glass bowls, marked on frame, each branch, and seven bowl bezels
17 7/8 in. (45.5 cm.) high, 24½ in. (62.2 cm.) diameter; 285 oz. (8876 gr.) weighable silver

Sotheby's, New York, 10 June 1980, lot 257
The Al-Tajir Collection