Lot 299
Lot 299
PROPERTY FROM A ROBERT KIME INTERIOR, BELGRAVIA (LOTS 47, 49, 51, 53-56, 58-59, 61-62 & 299)
A VICTORIAN GILT-BRASS AND COPPER CISTERN

ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES MILNE AND SON, CIRCA 1840, AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS HOPE

Estimate
GBP 5,000 - GBP 8,000
Closed: 23 Oct 2024
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A VICTORIAN GILT-BRASS AND COPPER CISTERN

ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES MILNE AND SON, CIRCA 1840, AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS HOPE

Closed: 23 Oct 2024
Closed: 23 Oct 2024
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The circular top above a frieze mounted with lion mask handles on three pilaster supports headed by palmettes and joined by x-shaped braces, inset with two copper cisterns, the lower one with a tap, the plain circular base frieze embellished with circular mounts above three goat hoof feet
42 in. (107 cm.) high; 20 in. (51 cm.) wide
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 20 February, 1987, lot 131.
Partridge; Christie's, London, 17 May 2006, lot 93 (sold $14,400).
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