Lot 167
Auction: 23 November 2008 at 15:00 GMT
Estimate: £10,000 - £15,000
Description
A Lloyds Patriotic Fund Vase
Digby Scott and Benjamin Smith, London 1806-07
of classic Greek Volute Krater shape, the separate shoulder with gadroon border, fruiting laurel border and scroll border on matted grounds, the main body with a repoussé florid meandering scroll frieze, on a matted ground with rope twist borders, flanked by a pair of tall vertical handles with rosette bosses and rope twist banding over a rosette terminal and a formal foliate spray, the front with a chased panel of Hercules slaying the Hydra, the verso with Britannia, seated, her raised hand supporting a figure of Victory, all over a formal band of anthemions and foliate sprigs upon the stiff leaf and acanthus chased socle foot.
39cm high, 111oz
Digby Scott and Benjamin Smith, London 1806-07
of classic Greek Volute Krater shape, the separate shoulder with gadroon border, fruiting laurel border and scroll border on matted grounds, the main body with a repoussé florid meandering scroll frieze, on a matted ground with rope twist borders, flanked by a pair of tall vertical handles with rosette bosses and rope twist banding over a rosette terminal and a formal foliate spray, the front with a chased panel of Hercules slaying the Hydra, the verso with Britannia, seated, her raised hand supporting a figure of Victory, all over a formal band of anthemions and foliate sprigs upon the stiff leaf and acanthus chased socle foot.
39cm high, 111oz
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