A Good French Gilt Metal Renaissance Revival Wine Cistern c.1870 antiques One of the fewer plates

One of the fewer plates we are offering that are in portrait format and an attractive one at that

Unfortunately

mounted on an ebonised cross with a bone Christian cross below

and as a result

The trams were well loved and at the time it cost a penny to travel to Portobello and tuppence to travel to Edinburgh

A Good French Gilt Metal Renaissance Revival Wine Cistern c.1870 antiques One of the fewer platesOrigin: French Period: 2nd Empire Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 80 Height: 14 Width: 23. 5 The late nineteenth century French gilt metal wine cistern of large proportions, in Renaissance revival style, decorated with bands of scrolling vine leaves with central Bacchus masks, above scenes of Bacchanalian revelry involving putto, the handles formed as caryatids, the whole standing on paw feet. The condition of the cistern is good overall. The patina