Fine Silver and Objects of Vertu - 29th April 2015

Lot 736

An early-Victorian silver four-bottle cruet frame

Estimate £500 - £700 | Hammer £550

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Description

An early-Victorian silver four-bottle cruet frame,

by William Elliott, London 1839,

shaped oval form, central shell capped scroll handle, wire-work frame with scroll supports, shell and scroll border, on four foliate shell bracket feet, with two silver-mounted cut-glass condiment jars, and two glass condiment jars, with a mustard spoon, engraved with a crest, height 23.5cm, approx. weight 22oz.

The crest is that of Gibbes, Baronets of Fackley, Oxfordshire.