Property from the Collection of Richard Kent
An Unusual Victorian Silver-Gilt Mounted Glass "Gothic Revival" Wine Jug, Edward Dimes, London, 1894
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October 18, 08:11 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
An Unusual Victorian Silver-Gilt Mounted Glass "Gothic Revival" Wine Jug, Edward Dimes, London, 1894
the hexagonal pedestal foot with leaf tips at the angles, below pierced band of scrolling foliage, the plain glass pear-shaped body with lower calyx of crowns, palms, and trefoils with engraved details, scroll handle with Gothic leaves, the neck with arcaded gallery, the finial formed as a Gothic tempietto above a rock and with crown finial, Greek cross thumbpiece, inscribed on the foot, Deo Gratias 1869-1894, fully marked underneath, part marked elsewhere
Height 11 5/8 in.
29.5 cm
Edward Dimes registered his first mark in 1893, a year before this piece, with an address of 3 King Square, Goswell Road, Clerkenwell. In 1905 he was working for Elkington & Co., but was back on his own by 1906; he continued to be listed as a silversmith until 1917.
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