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Stowe 1848 Sale Lots: Vase, Chalices and Lamp

From the Stowe 1848 Sale Catalogue.

824. A beautiful vase, formed of a noble block of rock-crystal, of compressed oviform, deeply engraved with arabesques in beautiful old Italian taste; it is mounted with a lip and handles of sliver gilt. Garrard. 42 0 0. This vase was a very rare and beautiful specimen, cut from a single block of rock crystal—exquisitely enriched with arabesque.

277. An ostrich egg—mounted in silver, as a sideboard chalice, with terminal figures in relief, the rime engraved with hunting subjects: it is supported on a group of three ostriches, and the foot is chased in beautiful old taste. Redfern. 10 10 0. Mr Redfern has since sold this beautiful work of art… to Charles Birch, Esq., of Harbourn Hall, Edgbaston, an eminent collector of modern pictures.

286. A cocoa-nut—silver mounted, on a stem and foot of silver. Ryman. 5 0 0.

1258. A cinque-centro bronze lamp, partly gilt, surmounted with a figure of Judith with the head of Holofernes. Hertz. 4 4 0.


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