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Gueridon
Marked by: Elkington & Co. (English)
English (Birmingham)
1862
Object Place: Europe, Birmingham, England
Medium/Technique
Metal; silver-plated, red marble top
Dimensions
Overall: 73.7 cm (29 in.)
Other (Overall; base): 44.5 cm (17 1/2 in.)
Other (Overall; base): 44.5 cm (17 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour
Accession Number65.47
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsFurniture – Tables, stands, screens
Silver
Silver
DescriptionGueridon. Early Victorian circular, electroplated silver, red marble-topped table, with pierced gallery, on a stand decorated with foliations, shell motifs and female masks, supported by out-scrolling members on trilateral supports flanking grotesque masks and escutcheons engraved with crests. Well hallmarked.
Marks
Underneath one foot, a series of marks: maker's mark E&Co with a crown above; E & Co in three separate squares; E (Part of a mark or a date letter?).Underneath another foot, stamped number 8904s. Underneath the base, registry mark for 23 November 1862, Class I, Parcel 3.
InscriptionsARMORIALS: engraved on each plaque in between the three legs, an unidentified crest (?a hand holding a scroll of paper?).