Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 25th April 2018
Lot 861
A fine George V Britannia standard silver-gilt Chinoiserie dressing table set
Estimate £20,000 - £30,000
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Description
A fine George V Britannia standard silver-gilt Chinoiserie dressing table set,
by Thomas Callow & Son, London, 1915,
chased with Chinoiserie decoration in the James II style with figures, birds, landscapes and buildings, comprising: a pair of vases, a pair of baluster jars with pierced stoppers and detachable covers, a pair of circular soap boxes, a pair of octagonal toilet jars and covers, a pair of hair brushes, a pair of clothes brushes, a hand mirror, a comb (by R. Comyns, London 1952), a clothes whisk, a tray, a pin cushion and a silver-gilt mounted wooden dressing table mirror, with a swivel mirror, the hinged front opens to reveal gilded wooden drawers and a writing slope, with Chinoiserie decoration, the front with a drawer with jewellery compartments, with a key, in a fitted leather-bound upright velvet-lined display case and carrying case, height of mirror 97.5cm, length of dressing table tray 38cm, approx. weighable 133oz. (17)
Provenance: Sotheby's, London, Important Silver, 29 November 2006, lot 56.
Sotheby's, New York, 22 April 1998, lot 179.