Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 29th October 2019

Lot 111

A rare Derby wine taster

Estimate £600 - £800

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Description

A rare Derby wine taster, c.1756-60, the circular form with lobed moulding to the exterior, decorated with stylized puce leaf sprays, the interior well painted with a flowering peony plant in a simple palette of polychrome enamels within a double line border, the pierced scroll handle picked out in puce, a fine short rim crack, 7.1cm.

Provenance: Bonhams, 8th September 2004, lot 212.