AN AMERICAN SILVER AND 14-KARAT GOLD BOWL AND MATCHING PLATE, MARK OF GEORGE W. SCHIEBLER & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880

AN AMERICAN SILVER AND 14-KARAT GOLD BOWL AND MATCHING PLATE
MARK OF GEORGE W. SCHIEBLER & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880
The circular bowl with shaped rim, the sides finely chased and applied with gold and gilt lotus blossoms and veined leaves emerging from swirling tides, the circular plate with undulating border, spot-hammered and applied with gilt grasshopper, owl, fly, frog, salamander and crab spaced by gilt prunus and cattails, the center engraved with a coronet, marked on undersides, bowl numbered 254X, plate 1437 and with two French import marks
7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm.) diameter, the plate
13 oz. 2 dwt. (407 gr.)

Provenance

The bowl: Sotheby's, New York, 28-31 January 1993, lot 75.
The plate: with Fortunoff, New York.