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Lot 2126
Two English Gilt and Painted Leather Fire Buckets
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
19th century, each with painted and gilt royal coat of arms Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense (Shame be to him who thinks ill of it) and lower scrolled border Dieu Et Mon Droit (God and my right), the smaller a in conical form, with copper upper rim border and round copper border mounts. (10 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.); the larger in cylindrical form with leather double handles. (24 x 12 x 12 in.).

Private Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Both with all over cracking, some areas of loss and staining; smaller missing handle.