RECENT ACQUISITIONS - 14TH OF JULY, 2016.
19th Century Swiss 18k gold snuff box, the lid decorated with a delicately hand painted miniature depicting a mother and child surrounded by graduating fresh water pearls, engine-turned decoration on lid, sides and base, applied with dark blue translucent enamel, within light blue boarders and urns.
Engraved with crowned maker mark RPC (unknown to me)
REFERENCE NUMBER: A5313
20th Century Japanese silver five piece tea set, consisting of a teapot, sugar bowl, waist bowl, cream jug and sugar tongs, exceptional quality, double walled, embossed with Iris flowers in water in high relief, C-form handles and lids applied with realistically modelled iris flowers.
Hallmarked Sterling (925), Maker Samurai Shokai, Yokohama.
Reference Number: A5304
19th Century Victorian silver four piece tea & coffee set, comprising of a coffee pot, tea pot, sugar bowl and cream jug, each lobed body resting on four cast shell feet, the body chased and embossed with game birds in a wheat field, extremely rare and well made design, leaf-capped scroll handles, the hinged covers with lovely cast finial realistically modelled as a pheasant on matted ground, inside richly parcel gilt.
Hallmarked English silver (925 Standard), London, year 1844 (j), Maker's mark WH (William Hunter).
REFERENCE NUMBER: A5321
19th Century Victorian silver stirrup cup, the head realistically cast as a fox with ears pricked, richly gilt interior, plain collar with a step boarder. Victorian stirrup cups modelled as foxes are extremely rare and sought, especially ones made by silversmiths with Royal Warrants.
Hallmarked English silver (925 standard), London, year 1846 (L), Maker's mark ISH (John Samuel Hunt), inventory number 2750.
REFERENCE NUMBER: A5311