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Description

Of oval form, the foot elaborately cast and chased with foliage, rocaille, and masks of Ceres and lions, the raised everted sides pierced and engraved inside and outside with continuous foliate scrolls, the rim applied with cast border of scrolls, rocaille and cherub heads; the overhead swing handle cast with acanthus-clad scrolls and female heads and applied with similar decoration.

Dimensions

25.4 x 35.6 x 33 cm (10 x 14 x 13 in.) 1671 g

Provenance

Private Collector, London, sold [through Christie's, London, November 6, 1903, lot 91]. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.