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ANTIQUE 19thC VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT PAIR OF WINE EWERS, ELKINGTON & CO c.1878
19th Century Victorian pair of silver-gilt wine ewers. Amphora shaped, on a spreading foot chased with laurel leaf borders below fluted raised centre, the body with a large band figuring classical scenes of quadriga, four-horse chariots, with goddesses and nymphs, the neck chased with large acanthus leaves and the tops with hinged covers applied with Medusa masks.
Hallmarked English Silver (925), London, year 1878 (C), Retail mark JT (possibly mark of John Taylor). Probably made by Elkington & Co and overstruck with the JT retail mark.
Reference Number: A6377
