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Ornate silver plate with bird-hunting theme.

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Silver Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD
Ornate silver plate with bird-hunting theme.
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Ornate silver plate with bird-hunting theme. 181 grams, 6-3/4" in diameter. Perfectly preserved (no corrosion) and fabulously well detailed, this small, shallow plate shows a game-bird with wings outstretched in the center surrounded by the heads of horses and full side-views of a deer and a dog and two stork-like birds amongst vegetation, presumably a hunting scene, the execution of which is clearly South American but beautifully done, all in a lightly toned hammered silver with protrusion in center on bottom where some sort of stand once attached. We shudder to think of the market value of this piece if it had come from the Atocha (1622)! Recovered from: "Wild Horse River wreck," sunk ca. 1620 in the Río de la Plata off Colonia, Uruguay