ID 820161
Lot 670 | AN OTTOMAN SILVER REPOUSSÉ MIRROR AND ASSOCIATED VICTORIAN SILVER STAND
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 3 000
CIRCA 1870, THE STAND MARK OF WILLIAM COMYNS & SONS LTD., LONDON, CIRCA 1900
Shaped circular, the border chased with scrolling foliage, the reverse with a conforming border around a large radiating star surrounded by twelve smaller stars, the stand with two scrolled supports rising from a lobed domed circular base similarly chased with scrolling foliage, with weighted base, the mirror marked with tughra and standard mark, also with assay scrape, the base with maker's mark only
21 1/4 in. (54 cm.) high
164 oz. 8 dwt. (5,113 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 27 April 1995, lot 82.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Exhibited
San Francisco, San Francisco Fall Antique Show Loan Exhibition at Fort Mason, 29 October - 2 November 2003.
| Artist: | William Comyns (1835 - 1916) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Glass, Mirror glass, Silver |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Asia, Europe, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Artist: | William Comyns (1835 - 1916) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Glass, Mirror glass, Silver |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Asia, Europe, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
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