American Middletown Plate Co. Aesthetic Movement Silverplate Fairy and Nautilus Bowl oil lamps 25 Height 22

25 Height 22

19th century hammered and repousse sheet silver over wood altar decorations or reliquaries

With chain: Height 35 inches

1913-2001)

5 Depth 2 Height 0

American Middletown Plate Co. Aesthetic Movement Silverplate Fairy and Nautilus Bowl oil lamps 25 Height 22DETAILS An antique fruit and nut bowl modelled as a large nautilus shell with an exaggerated opening, set upon four stylized coral feet, the shell surmounted by a cast and applied fairy seated upon a crescent moon. STYLE Victorian Aesthetic Movement PATTERN LITERATURE Edmund P. Hogan, The Elegance of Old Silverplate and some Personalities, 1980, p. 62, illustrated. MAKER Middletown Plate Company (Middletown, Connecticut, 1864 1921) (Subsidiary of