Victorian Silverplate and Glass Centerpiece, fourth quarter 19th century, the lobed baluster standard decorated with applied scrolls, raised above a conforming foot with acanthus scrolls, applied birds and a central cartouche, and surmounted by a trumpeting receptacle surrounded by three scrolling arms each terminating in a lotus-form drip pan and short nozzle, the central receptacle fitted with a later shaped glass bowl decorated with frosted and cut acanthus fronds, engraved on the cartouche with the arms of Gilstrap impaling Haigh, h. 22-1/2", w. 14-1/4". The arms here are those of Sir William Gilstrap, 1st Baronet (1816-1896) and his wife Elizabeth Haigh (1822-1891), who were married on June 2, 1847 at Christ Church, Woodhouse, Huddersfield parish, York.