A LATE 18TH CENTURY PORTUGESE SILVER EWER
MARK OF LUIS JOSE ELOY DA SILVA, LISBON, CIRCA 1790
Of inverted pear-shape with waisted neck, with narrow, ribbed, vertical bands chased over the top with daisies, sunflowers, roses, tulips, daffodils and chrysanthemums, a Bacchanalian mask below lip, the cast, bifurcated scroll handle terminating at top in a dragon, the back of neck of jug terminating in an acanthus leaf, assay scrape under the cast foot, the assay scrape repeated inside neck
11in. (28.cm.) high
41.5 oz.
A LATE 18TH CENTURY PORTUGESE SILVER EWER
MARK OF LUIS JOSE ELOY DA SILVA, LISBON, CIRCA 1790
Of inverted pear-shape with waisted neck, with narrow, ribbed, vertical bands chased over the top with daisies, sunflowers, roses, tulips, daffodils and chrysanthemums, a Bacchanalian mask below lip, the cast, bifurcated scroll handle terminating at top in a dragon, the back of neck of jug terminating in an acanthus leaf, assay scrape under the cast foot, the assay scrape repeated inside neck
11in. (28.cm.) high
41.5 oz.
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