Lot 251
  • 251

A pair of Victorian silver figural salts, Walter & John Barnard, London, 1877

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on bases and figures
  • Silver
  • height 8 1/8 in.
  • 20.7cm
raised on circular pedestal bases, the salts formed as fully-modeled figures of a peasant boy and girl holding a basket, bases monogramed FC

Condition

good
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Catalogue Note

The Barnards issued a number of these salts in the 1860s. John Culme illustrates a pair of 1865/66 and the white metal patterns for the figures in Nineteenth Century Silver, pp. 69 and 126.