A Set of Four Victorian Silver Dessert-Stands by John Samuel Hunt

each on shaped domed circular base, cast with fruiting vines, the vines form feet one three sides, with a fruiting vine cast stem and support for the later circular glass bowls, the stems formed as a figure emblematic of one of the four seasons, spring formed as a seated shepherdess holding foliage and flowers, with a lamb wreathed in a floral garland beside her; summer as a seated man with a goat, holding grapes and with a cornucopia at his feet; autumn as a seated woman with a scythe and holding a flaming touch, a sheaf of wheat on each side and winter as a seated wood-cutter warming his hands at a fire, an axe beside him, the bases each cast as differing rockwork and applied with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet 32cm high, the glass bowls 21cm diameter, 307oz 13dwt, 9,600gr (4)

Estimate:$39,789.66

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