A Handsome Silver Epergne in the Regency Style

The large Centre Bowl of fine quality English Crystal glass, fashioned in the form of an open flower, the lip scalloped and chamfered, and the body with panels of deep gouged cutting to simulate petals, the facings embellished with facets. Three scrolled reeded branches issuing from the mouths of Phoenix birds supported beautiful, open wire work baskets, enriched with applied grape and leaf decoration, to contain similar Crystal bowls upon a trifid base with French gadroon mounts and raised on claw feet. Three finely wrought caryatids of neo-classical design form the central support.

 

"This piece of plate was provided out of a sum bequeathed to the Corporation of Sheffield by the late Sir Howard Vincent, K.C.M.G., C.B., the member of Parliament for the Central Division of the City of Sheffield, from 1885 to 1908."