Silver, lapis lazuli three-piece garniture silver-gilt and enamel-mounted. Comprising a centre-piece and cover and pair of vases and covers: each piece with domed cover above a waisted body and spreading foot, applied with figural finials, handles and mounts. Especially large in scale, this garniture is exemplary of the production of Renaissance revival works of art fashionable in the second half of the 19^th century. Comprising a centrepiece surmounted by a bust of Zeus and pair of vases with finials depicting Athena and Artemis, this garniture of precious lapis lazuli mounted in enamelled silver is a tribute to renaissance objects of "Rothschild" splendour.

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