Royal Selangor Lewis Votive Gold Frames Beveled glass and gray moiré

Beveled glass and gray moiré silk back with easel for vertical or horizontal placement

Weight: 38 g

Dimensions: S:4

a superbly realised pewter Captain stands resolute on the back of a powerfully sculpted bonded porcelain eagle

Royal Selangor Lewis Votive Gold Frames Beveled glass and gray moiréInterlocking arches, a decorative device on a bishop chess piece, take on a physical architectural expression in pewter, pierced to reveal the flicker of a tealight. An integral socket doubles its use as a candlestand for tapers. Unearthed on the Isle of Lewis in 1831, in the wilderness of Scotlands remote Outer Hebrides, the 12th century Lewis chessmen are exquisitely carved in walrus ivory, and very likely of Scandinavian origin. Of the seventy