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Caster
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Fluted baluster on domed spreading foot, with applied mid-rib, the high domed cover pierced with panels of alternating trelliswork and foliate scrolls each enclosing rocaille, with baluster finial, the side engraved, probably in the nineteenth century, with a crest.
The crest, an arm in armor embowed holding cross crosslet, is unidentified. (Hartop 2003)
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Private Collection sold [through Christie's London July 20 1955 lot 150]. Sold [through Christie's London July 12 1983 lot 191]. David Berg New York bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum 1999.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of David Berg
Title: Caster
Description:
Fluted baluster on domed spreading foot, with applied mid-rib, the high domed cover pierced with panels of alternating trelliswork and foliate scrolls each enclosing rocaille, with baluster finial, the side engraved, probably in the nineteenth century, with a crest.
The crest, an arm in armor embowed holding cross crosslet, is unidentified.
(Hartop 2003).
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