A CONTINENTAL RENAISSANCE REVIVAL SILVER GILT FIGURAL STANDING CENTER PIECE, circa 1870. Marks: SOLID SILVER. 20-1/4 inc...

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A CONTINENTAL RENAISSANCE REVIVAL SILVER GILT FIGURAL STANDING CENTER PIECE, circa 1870
Marks: SOLID SILVER
20-1/4 inches high (51.4 cm)
62.79 troy ounces

The textured shell-form bowl with dolphin and scroll handle to one end and opposite a sitting female holding a pitcher with free movement, a putto stands directly below holding up a chalice, shell-form bowl with chased repoussé mythological scene to interior, and scrolling foliate and fruit to the exterior, a putto-form standard carries the shell above four cast hippocampus with alternating lion masks to the border below, raised on a two-tiered ovular base with putti, shells, and satyr masks.

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