SWEETMEAT DISH FROM A SEVEN-PIECE TABLE GARNITURE
Creator(s): V. Mayer's Söhne (Firm) , Valentin Teirich (Designer) , Vincenz Czokally (Silversmith) , Lobmeyr (Attributed to)
Currently in storage
About this object
This seven-piece table garniture features Dyonisian iconography. The fruit bowl sits on a triangular base with cut off corners decorated with cast and applied rosettes. The fluted post is decorated with a band of acanthus and festoons and terminating on three scrolls supporting a glass dish which is mounted with three lion's heads. Three putti astride dolphins surround the post.
- Object name:
- SWEETMEAT DISH FROM A SEVEN-PIECE TABLE GARNITURE
- Made from:
- Silver -- glass -- onyx
- Made in:
- Austria
- Date made:
- 1873
- Size:
- 38.1 × 45.7 cm (15 × 18 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.290.23-24
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARK Letter A in square with cut-off corners, assay mark for Vienna, 1866-1922; head of Diana in five-lobed flower shape, with3 to left and A to right, silver standard of .750 persent fineness, used in Vienna, 1872-1937; head of greyhound in hexagon, with 3 to left and A to right, silver standard of .800 percent fineness, used in Vienna, 1866-1922; V M S in rectangle, maker's mark for firm of Mayer's V. Söhne, Vienna, 1870-81; V C in rectangle with cut-off corners, mark of Vincenz Czokally, silversmith in Vienna (active 1866-99)
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973