A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SILVER VEGETABLE DISHES AND COVERS WITH ASSOCIATED ELECTROPLATED WARMING STANDS
MARK OF SMITH AND NICHOLSON, LONDON, 1857, THE STANDS CIRCA 1860
Domed fluted covers with handles in form of a family crest, a pelican in it's piety, feeding it's young in the nest and engraved on one side with coat of arms and on other with twin crests, the circular dishes with acanthus leaf handles, gadroon and foliate borders, the plated openwork stands on four winged lion supports, with detachable spirit lamps
10½ in. (27 cm.) high
Weighable silver 100 oz. (3100 gm.) (4)
A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SILVER VEGETABLE DISHES AND COVERS WITH ASSOCIATED ELECTROPLATED WARMING STANDS
MARK OF SMITH AND NICHOLSON, LONDON, 1857, THE STANDS CIRCA 1860
Domed fluted covers with handles in form of a family crest, a pelican in it's piety, feeding it's young in the nest and engraved on one side with coat of arms and on other with twin crests, the circular dishes with acanthus leaf handles, gadroon and foliate borders, the plated openwork stands on four winged lion supports, with detachable spirit lamps
10½ in. (27 cm.) high
Weighable silver 100 oz. (3100 gm.) (4)
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