Lot 315

A late Victorian ostrich egg cup

Auction: 28 May 2008 at 12:00 BST
£1,800
Description
by Elkington & Company Ltd, Birmingham 1890, the ostrich egg bowl with simple scalloped mount and plain liner, the supports formed as an Arab figure seated beneath two palm trees with an ostrich, the base naturalistically formed rock and landscape with foliate detail, the cartouche engraved 'Cairo 1890'
Dimensions
20cm high, 14cm diameter of bowl
