Late 19th century
In Italian Renaissance maiolica style, modelled as three scalloped dish painted with grotesques, supported on a tree and surmounted by three dolphins carrying a shell shaped dish, painted cockerel mark, 27cm high; also a pair of Cantagalli Urbino style ewers, 29cm high (3)
Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
Hammer price: | £240 |
Centrepiece- there has been breaks and restoration through the top of each of the dolphins tails and to the shell shaped dish, with some losses around the breaks. There are extensive rim chips around the rims of each of the dishes.
Ewers- One lacking handle, restoration and chips to the snakes. Some other chips elsewhere. The other with restored handle, neck and mouth. Some losses to the snakes and some chips