Lot 27
A late 19th century Dutch export silver bowl.
Description
Condition Report
A late nineteenth century Dutch export silver footed bowl, the small circular form decorated with landscape scenes, one depicting a sailing boat with a windmill behind, the other a rural scene with a figure in a field, in between floral and foliate scrolls repeated to the circular footed base. Dutch assay marks including the lion rampant key mark and a date letter for 1899, with the Foreign mark and import hallmarks for Samuel Boyce (or Boaz) Landeck,, Sheffield 1899, and further marks to the base. Height measuring 3 inches (7.5 cm), weight 4.27 ozt (132.8 grams).
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Purchasing information-
The bowl displays some tarnishing and surface wear, marks and scratches commensurate with age and use. Minor dints and bumps. The rim with a couple of small splits. Damage to the foot rim with some folds, creases and splits in the metal and a small section missing. It wobbles a little on it's foot. Some rubbing and slight loss of detail to areas of the decoration but still appears fairly good. The import hallmarks and Dutch assay marks below the rim are all clearly legible. Further partly indistinct Dutch marks to underside of base, including 930.