RECENT ACQUISITIONS - 25th February, 2019
19th Century French silver tea service, comprising: teapot, coffee pot, sugar bowl and cream jug; all circular shaped with panels chased with latticework and foliate scrolls on a matted ground, the pots with cast foliate bouquet finials, dolphin mask spouts, handles with insulators, all raised on four rocialle scroll feet.
Hallmarked French silver (950), Paris, Marks for Charles-Nicholas Odiot, each base stamped "ODIOT PARIS".
Reference Number: A5724
20th Century Thailand silver-gilt & niello presentation photograph frame. Upright rectangular form with inverted angular boarder, frame decorated with dense floral ground mounted on a varnished brown wood back with support, Inside is a signed and dated (31.07.68) photograph presented to Georgette and Jacques, comes in its original gift box.
Hallmarked Sterling (925 standard).
Reference Number: A5583
19th Century Burmese (Myanmar) silver thabeik repousse' bowl, very well made and heavy gauge, repousse' decorated in high relief with six different scenes from the Burmese mythology, representing various figures and animals in a landscape, The quality of the bowl is simply outstanding, heavy gauge and very crisp. The base engraved with a peacock mark, there are number of different variations of the peacock signature, all of whom are are indirectly claiming past royal patronage by using this mark (see Wilkinson's page 41), the bowl also marked with later Soviet import marks (875 silver standard).
Reference Number: A5777
