Lot 76

AN AUSTRIAN ENAMEL AND PARCEL-GILT SILVER TWO-HANDLED VASE AND COVER

VIENNA, CIRCA 1870

Closed22 October 2009

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AN AUSTRIAN ENAMEL AND PARCEL-GILT SILVER TWO-HANDLED VASE AND COVER
VIENNA, CIRCA 1870
On circular domed foot, the enamel body and cover with silver mounts at intervals, with two caryatid handles, with painted enamel scenes including Persephone and Hades, King Midas, Pan and Apollo, a triumphal procession for Constantine the Great, and Helen of Troy, the cover surmounted by Athena finial, marked on mounts at base, waist, shoulder, lip, cover, each handle and on finial
23½ (59.7 cm.) high