Important South African & International Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 12 October 2015
English, Cape and Colonial Silver, Decorative Arts and Furniture
About this Item
A Victorian electroplate tea urn
embossed and engraved with flowerheads, foliage and garlands enclosing a pair of vacant cartouches, the beaded handles with ram's-head terminals, on a spreading circular foot to a square base raised on four bun feet, the whole with beaded borders, the cover similarly decorated and with lion-mask finial, the front fitted with a tap, the interior fitted with a detachable tube insert, the interior with later fitting, 60cm high
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