Bidspirit auction | Smooth fruit bowl with a

Smooth fruit bowl with a pearled rim in Portuguese silver - An interesting ice bucket with tongs and a rack, crafted from 833‰ Portuguese silver. Smooth decoration with a beaded rim in the neoclassical style. Hallmark for 833‰ silver used at the Lisbon Assay Office from 1938 to 1984. Mark of the Lisbon goldsmith Henriques Marques, registered in 1933 and cancelled in 1970 [no. 512]. Notes: see VIDAL, Manuel Gonçalves; ALMEIDA, Fernando Moitinho de - ‘Marcas de Contrastes e Ourives Portugueses (1887 to 1993)’, vol. II. Lisbon: IN-CM, 1997.