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Description

Fluted baluster on domed spreading foot, with applied mid-rib, the high domed cover pierced with panels of alternating trelliswork and foliate scrolls each enclosing rocaille, with baluster finial, the side engraved, probably in the nineteenth century, with a crest. The crest, an arm in armor embowed holding cross crosslet, is unidentified. (Hartop 2003)

Dimensions

21 × 8.9 cm (8 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.) 554 g

Provenance

Private Collection, sold [through Christie's, London, July 20, 1955, lot 150]. Sold [through Christie's, London, July 12, 1983, lot 191]. David Berg, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1999.