$12,000
Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000
English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
Auction: October 7, 2014 11:00:00 AM EDT
Rectangular form, surmounted by shaped egg-and-dart and bead-and-dart borders above a frieze carved in high relief to show a pair of putti supporting a portrait medallion in laurel frame, above a rounded cobalt body pierced with three holes to the underside, the ends with lion head masks issuing foliate festoons joined to U-form supports modeled with caryatids above a guilloche border, raised on c-scroll and hoof feet.
H: 14, W: 24, D: 16 1/2 in.Provenance: Property from the collection of Debra and I. Michael Coslov, Haverford, PA.
A similar trough, with a pale blue ground, sold by Sotheby's, New York, April 15, 2008.