ANTIQUE 19THC VICTORIAN SOLID SILVER MAGNIFICENT FIGURAL COMPORTS, HUNT C.1848
19th Century pair of Victorian Silver figural comports / tazze, each piece raised on a circular base applied with cast grapevine, surmounted by impressive and finely modelled mythological figures depicting a young man feeding a goat with grape and a female figure holding a lamb, both under a dish-form vine arbour fitted with a cut-glass dish. Hallmarked English Silver (925), London, year 1848 (n), Maker's mark crowned ISH for John Samuel Hunt.
REFERENCE NUMBER: A3934
DESCRIPTION
Antique 19th Century magnificent pair of Victorian Solid Silver figural comports / tazze, each piece raised on a circular base applied with cast grapevine, surmounted by impressive and finely modelled mythological figures depicting a young man feeding a goat with grape and a female figure holding a lamb, both under a dish-form vine arbour fitted with a cut-glass dish.
Each part is fully Hallmarked English Silver (925 standard), London, year 1848 (n), Maker's mark crowned ISH (John Samuel Hunt, senior partner in Hunt & Roskell, successors of the Paul Storr firm, the most important English Royal silversmiths of all time). Each base is further stamped with the retailer's mark "HUNT & ROSKELL, LATE STORR, MORTIMER & HUNT", serial number 3998.
CONDITION
In Great Condition - No damage.
The glass dishes are not original.
SIZE
Total Height (each): 33cm
Total Width (each): 27.5cm
Total Silver Weight (no glass): 4920g