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An Italian Silver Spice Tower, Rome, late 18th century

Auction Closed

December 15, 09:26 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

An Italian Silver Spice Tower, Rome, late 18th century


typical form, circular chamber pierced with shells and rows of running leaves, beaded girdle, slender baluster stem, matching fluted foot, screw-on lion and palm finial, marked on body, cover, and foot, not clear, with later French control mark


Height 10¼in. (26 cm)

Sotheby's, New York, 25 November 1981, lot 257, where it also points to "an almost identical example... in Salvatori Fornari's Gli Argenti Romani, p. 124."