A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED HARDSTONE BOWL AND COVER
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY
The tapering mottled purple-red hardstone bowl on circular spreading foot, applied near the rim with a silver-gilt band of foliage, the silver-gilt scroll side handles cast with bird's masks, the detachable cover cut with a quatrefoil calyx beneath ball finial
5 1/2 in. (13.9 cm.) wide, over handles
A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED HARDSTONE BOWL AND COVER
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY
The tapering mottled purple-red hardstone bowl on circular spreading foot, applied near the rim with a silver-gilt band of foliage, the silver-gilt scroll side handles cast with bird's masks, the detachable cover cut with a quatrefoil calyx beneath ball finial
5 1/2 in. (13.9 cm.) wide, over handles
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