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Lot 20

Sale 5519 - Silver & Objets de Vertu
May 22, 2014 6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$40,000 - 60,000
Price Realized
$42,500
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A Fine George III silver centerpiece john bridge for rundell, bridge, and rundell, london, 1809-10

The stem formed as a palm tree surrounded by Bacchus and two maenads in motion, each figure modelled in classical garb, Bacchus with a lion pelt over his shoulder and each maenad holding the ends of a ribbon, atop the palm fronds sits a removable woven basket with openworked berry and vine rim, the whole supported on an incurved triangular base with three intricately-worked foliage and shell scrolling feet, the stippled ground of the base with Bacchanalian mask and ewer beneath large chased leaves, the base engraved on two sides with coat-of-arms, the third side stamped "Rundell Bridge et Rundell Aurifices Regis Londini".

H: 30, Diameter of bowl: 15 in. 444 oz. (approx).

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