A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER EWERS

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Los 34 | A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER EWERS
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER EWERS

MARK OF THOMAS HOLLAND, LONDON, 1807

Each vase shaped on spreading circular foot with egg-and-dart and reeded vine borders, the shoulder chased with a strap of demi-putti with lyres, the handle formed as a male Bacchic caryatid, the spout applied with a female mask with lion headdress, the rim applied with vine tendrils and fruits, engraved below the spout with a coat-of-arms with baron's coronet above and motto below, marked below the rim

14 1/8 in. (36 cm.) high

148 oz. 3 dwt. (4,609 gr.)

The arms are those of Monson, for John George, 4th Baron Monson (1785-1809), of Burton, co. Lincoln, who married Sarah, daughter of 2nd Earl Mexborough in 1807.





Provenance

John George, 4th Baron Monson (1785-1809) of Burton, co. Lincoln.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 October 1970, lot 57.

A European Collector; Christie's, New York, 23 October 2000, lot 352.



Literature

V. Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, London, 1986, p. 246, no. 1110.

P. Waldron, The Price Guide to Antique Silver, Woodbridge, 1982, no. 1116.

A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt from the Collection of Audrey Love, London, 1997, no. 15, pp. 72-74.



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