A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TEAPOT, TEA POT STAND AND TEA-CADDY FROM BECKFORD`S COMING-OF-AGE SERVICE

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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TEAPOT, TEA POT STAND AND TEA-CADDY FROM BECKFORD'S COMING-OF-AGE SERVICE

MARK OF AARON LESTOURGEON, LONDON, 1781, THE STAND WITH MARK OF DANIEL SMITH AND ROBERT SHARP

Each oval and with beaded borders, the teapot with wood handle and finial, the teapot and caddy engraved with a coat-of-arms within a drapery mantling, the stand on three ball feet, engraved with a crest, marked underneath and in cover

the stand 6 1⁄8 in. (15.5 cm.) long

gross weight 40 oz. 1 dwt. (1,246 gr.)

The arms are those of Beckford quartering Hamilton and Arran for William Beckford (1759-1844) of Fonthill Splendens, Wiltshire.





Provenance

William Beckford (1760-1844), of Fonthill Splendens, later Fonthill Abbey and then Lansdown Tower, Bath, by descent to his daughter,

Susanna Euphemia, Duchess of Hamilton (1786-1858) wife of Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767-1852), then by descent to,

Angus Alan Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton and 12th Duke of Brandon (1938-2010),

His Grace The Duke of Hamilton and Brandon; Sotheby's, London, 14 July 1988, lot 136.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 April 1996, lot 268.

An Exceptional Eye, A Private British Collection; Sotheby's, London, 14 July 2010, lot 140.

Purchased from Koopman Rare Art, London, July 2010.



Literature

M. Snodin and M. Baker, The Burlington Magazine, 'William Beckford's Silver II', vol. 122, no. 933, December, 1980, p. 825, the teapot A1. Ostergard, ed., William Beckford 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001, p. 417, n. 2.
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