Lot 382
A VICTORIAN CAST TABLE CENTREPIECE
with a marine/nautical theme, modelled as wooden capstan draped with ropes and flanked by cannon, cannon balls, anchors, mortars & mortar bombs and supporting aloft a large & detachable decorative cup & cover, with a helmsman figure finial & gilt interior, the spreading base with two vacant cartouches and four stylised, spouting whales, by Edward & John Barnard, London 1861, also struck with the additional sponsors mark of George Richards Elkington (perhaps as retailer); 23.2" (59 cms) high; 115.7 oz
