Selected Silver and Objects of Vertu

A Dutch silver decanter modelled as a barn owl, late 19th century,

with glass bead eyes and detachable head, enclosing a lipped pierced grill, import marks SBL for Samuel Boyce (or Boaz) Landeck, London 1898, the pierced grill stamped with Dutch standard sword mark (in use between 1814-1905), height 28.5cm. £4,000-£6,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Menagerie of Silver, the Property of a Gentleman.

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Samuel Boyce (Boaz) Landeck of Campden Square, London, was a master silversmith from the Netherlands, and was an importer of fine Continental and foreign silverware.