A pair of 19th-century continental silver-gilt ewers, unmarked, probably German, the cylindrical bodies embossed and chased with panels of Renaissance figures in landscape settings, between female masks, below embossed shields and ammonites, the scroll handles with goat mask terminals with intertwined horns, the hinged covers set with medallions of Rudolphus and Ernst Habsburg, the thumb-pieces modelled as centauresses holding spheres, height 34.5cm and 33.8cm, approx. weight 84.5oz. (2)

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