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Unusual Nationalistic Portuguese silver vase


Estimate

700 - 1.000


Session 1

1 July 2015



Description

Of medieval architectonic inspiration
Foot designed as a wall with buttresses and eight enameled shields with the Portuguese Military Orders; body with battlements and the 12 Portuguese flags since the Foundation of the Kingdom in 1143 to the Republic in 1910
Upper part designed as wall with buttresses
Lisboa assay mark (1938-1984) and Manuel Pinto de Lima maker's mark (reg. 1931)
(wear signs, minor bruises and defects to the enamels)

Height: 28 cm
1642 g


Category

Silver



Closed Auction