A Group of South American Silver Riding Equipment, Peruvian and Argentinian, Circa 1820-90

A Group of South American Silver Riding Equipment, Peruvian and Argentinian, Circa 1820-90

a woman’s slipper-form stirrup pierced with trailing flowers; another densely chased with flowering foliage, scratched underneath “Soy de mi duena 1876 Z”; a pair of stirrups cast and pierced with entwined dolphins marked by G.Scholberg Joucia y Silva A Pelotas(Brazil); two similar woman’s arched stirrups cast and chased with foliage, one including a pair of hearts, with guards; and a pair of spurs cast with female heads and hands, with chains, 8 hand-form links and buckles, maker’s mark GJR lozenge below in lozenge-shaped punch, 8 pieces

100 oz gross  

3,110 g

lengths of slipper-form stirrups: approx. 9 in.

23 cm