Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 16th April 2019
Lot 523
A late-Victorian silver suite of two baskets and four matching tazza
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £3200
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Description
A late-Victorian silver suite of two baskets and four matching tazza,
by George Fox, London 1884 and 1891,
the two baskets of oval form, pierced scroll decoration, gadroon borders, on raised oval bases, engraved with a crest, the tazzae of circular form, pierced decoration, gadroon borders, on raised circular bases, in a fitted wooden case, length of baskets 25.5cm, diameter of tazzae 22cm, approx. weight 125oz. (6)
The crest is that of Gordon of Craig, Aberdeenshire and Gordon (Scotland).