拍品专文
An identical bowl, without cover, is in the collection of the City of Birmingham and is illustrated in Crisp Jones, ed., The Silversmiths of Birmingham, 1981, p. 144, fig. 138.
细节
A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT CENTERPIECE
MAKER'S MARK OF ELKINGTON & CO., BIRMINGHAM, 1888
On shaped oval flaring base raised on four fluted circular supports, applied with ram's heads and oval cartouches with chased foliate scrolls on a matted ground between, the shaped oval bowl with two hinged wreath handles, elaborately chased with a scene of Ceres amid a field of grain, holding a sheaf and sickle amid putti and, on the other side, with a naked maenad representing the grape harvest with a mask above, reclining amid attendant putti, with musical and marshall trophies between and applied at the shoulder with a stiff leaf band, the shaped rim with bacchic heads at intervals, with removable cut-glass liner with scalloped rim and domed silver-gilt flower grille with panels of overlapping archs with chased bellflowers between and surmounted by a figure of a standing muse holding laurel wreaths, marked on base, cover and figure also engraved Elkington & Co. --25 1/2in. (64.7cm.) high
(266oz., 8294gr.)
MAKER'S MARK OF ELKINGTON & CO., BIRMINGHAM, 1888
On shaped oval flaring base raised on four fluted circular supports, applied with ram's heads and oval cartouches with chased foliate scrolls on a matted ground between, the shaped oval bowl with two hinged wreath handles, elaborately chased with a scene of Ceres amid a field of grain, holding a sheaf and sickle amid putti and, on the other side, with a naked maenad representing the grape harvest with a mask above, reclining amid attendant putti, with musical and marshall trophies between and applied at the shoulder with a stiff leaf band, the shaped rim with bacchic heads at intervals, with removable cut-glass liner with scalloped rim and domed silver-gilt flower grille with panels of overlapping archs with chased bellflowers between and surmounted by a figure of a standing muse holding laurel wreaths, marked on base, cover and figure also engraved Elkington & Co. --25 1/2in. (64.7cm.) high
(266oz., 8294gr.)