A GEORGE I SILVER BEER JUG

Lot 168
07.07.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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£ 15 000
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ID 992549
Lot 168 | A GEORGE I SILVER BEER JUG
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 25 000
A GEORGE I SILVER BEER JUG

MARK OF JOHN WHITE, LONDON, 1720, BRITANNIA STANDARD

Pear shaped on spreading foot, with central moulded rim, the hinged cover with baluster finial, engraved with a coat-of-arms and motto with a baroque scalework cartouche within compass-drawn double scribe lines, engraved beneath the foot with initials I.C.B., marked underneath and in cover

10 3/4 in. (27.5 cm.) high

42 oz. 15 dwt. (1,331 gr.)

The arms are those of Bulteel of Fleet Damerell, almost certainly for James Bulteel M.P. (b.c.1676-1757) of Fleet Damerell, co. Devon.





Provenance

James Bulteel M.P. (b.c.1676-1757) of Fleet Damerell, co. Devon, then by descent to,

Lionel Bulteel (1860-1954) of Plympton, co. Devon.

A Lady [Lionel Bulteel]; Christie's, London, 13 December 1911, lot 55B (£161 to S. Gall).

A Lady; Christie's, London, 13 July 1914, lot 133 (to Harman).

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 20 April 2000, lot 271.



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