shell and gadroon design, cut crystal bowls, 13" tall, 21" across....An epergne is a decorative centrepiece for the dining table. Epergnes usually have a central bowl from which spread brackets with smaller bowls or candle holders attached to the ends. They were designed to be both decorative and useful. The bowls would either be filled with flowers, nuts, sweets or fruit. An epergne would sit on the dining table throughout the courses of a meal. When it was time for desert, the sweets, nuts or fruit held in the bowls were all ready for the guests at the table.

small nicks on teeth of the center bowl, minor silver bleed through from years of polishing