A VICTORIAN ELECTOGILT MOUNTED SEPIOLITE REPLICA OF A CLASSICAL ROMAN KANTHAROS BY ELKINGTON & CO

A VICTORIAN ELECTOGILT MOUNTED SEPIOLITE REPLICA OF A CLASSICAL ROMAN KANTHAROS BY ELKINGTON & CO, C1860 carved in high relief with centaurs and putti, 15cm h, stamped PUBD BY ELKINGTON & CO, mounted on ebonised plinth beneath a glass domeAccording to a cutting from a Christie's catalogue of the sale of the late C H T Hawkins Collection of Ivories, the original from which the present replica was produced by Elkington in the mid 19th c was sold on October 28, 1936.A similar Elkington & Co example in silver with identical handles, rim and foot but a somewhat different arrangement of centaurs was produced as a replica of a kantharos excavated at Pompeii in 1835, and was sold Christie's, May 1, 2012, lot 170.