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LOT 2154
Silver Easter Communion Wine Server
20TH CENTURY A.D.
11 in. (677 grams, 28 cm).
Piriform ewer with fluted rosette base, scrolled handle and hinged lid with cross motif; band of hatched scrolls to the neck, inscribed band to the equator on a hatched field ' + pascha * nostrum * immolatus * est * christus' citation from the anthem for Easter; underside stamped '328' and with old collector's label '10729178'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx central London gallery.
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