RECENT ACQUISITIONS - 24th October, 2022
19th Century Austrian silver gilt and hand painted enamel hunting horn. The silver gilt mounts pierced and painted with multi-coloured enamels, sections painted with classical romantic scenes and terminating in a realistically modeled fox head and paws.
The horn supported by a figure of a warrior. Hallmarked Austrian silver control mark (800 standard, used 1867-1922), Vienna, circa 1890, Maker's mark KB (Karl Bank, active 1895-1924).
Reference Number: C7758
20th Century Indian Colonial silver twin handled bowl, standing on a shaped domed foot, cast chased handles, the body is repousse' decorated in relief with figures in a landscape, depicting religious procession scenes in reserves, highlighted with scroll boarders and large acanthus leaves set against a matted ground, gilt interior.
Reference Number: A8182
Antique mid-19th Century French Monumental solid silver statue, standing on on a turned ebonised base, the statue realistically modelled as a cast figure of The Vestal Virgin, draped in a long veil extending from her diadem.
Reference Number: A6392