THE FAUNS AND DRYADS BOWL
A GEORGE V SILVER PRESENTATION BOWL
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THE FAUNS AND DRYADS BOWL A GEORGE V SILVER PRESENTATION BOWL

MARK OF OMAR RAMSDEN, LONDON, 1931

细节
THE FAUNS AND DRYADS BOWL
A GEORGE V SILVER PRESENTATION BOWL
MARK OF OMAR RAMSDEN, LONDON, 1931
Of circular section with a flaring rim, the body applied with a series of cast fauns and dryads, each supported on a tapering scroll plinth, raised on a pedestal foot with rose motifs, with an engraved presentation inscription, with a hammered finish, marked under foot, the base also engraved 'OMAR RAMSDEN ME FECIT MCMXXXI'
9 3/8 in. (23.7 cm.) diameter
65.5 oz. (2,035 gr.)
The inscription reads: 'I WAS WROUGHT BY COMMAND OF WALDO W. SKINNER FOR LOULOU F. SKINNER, HIS WIFE, TO MARK THE FEAST OF NOEL, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD. MCMXXXI'
来源
Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 27 January 1987, lot 15
出版
Eric Turner and Lynn Springer Roberts, English Silver, Masterpieces by Omar Ramsden From the Campbell Collection, David A. Hanks & Associates, New York, 1992, p. 60
展览
Chicago, Montreal, Nashville, Williamstown, and Toronto, English Silver, Masterpieces by Omar Ramsden From The Campbell Collection, no. 38
注意事项
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

This bowl is recorded in Ramsden's workbook as entry 4156 'Fauns and Dryads Bowl, finished Sept. 26, 1931 for Waldo W. Skinner Esq. K.C. of Montreal, Canada'.