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A GEORGE II SILVER-GILT EWER AND BASIN FROM THE BEAUFORT DRESSING PLATE

Lot 167
07.07.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 70 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 167 | A GEORGE II SILVER-GILT EWER AND BASIN FROM THE BEAUFORT DRESSING PLATE
Estimate value
£ 70 000 – 100 000
A GEORGE II SILVER-GILT EWER AND BASIN FROM THE BEAUFORT DRESSING PLATE

MARK OF JOHN WHITE, LONDON, 1729, THE ENGRAVING ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES GARDNER

Comprising a helmet-shaped ewer and a basin, the ewer on spreading circular foot engraved with foliate border, the knop engraved with a band of leaves, applied mid-way with a moulded rib and engraved on the lower part of the body with stylised strapwork, foliage and lobed panels, the foliage capped c-shaped handle rising from an applied reversed double scroll and cast and chased with mask of Venus, with shaped moulded border, the shaped oblong basin with moulded rim, the border engraved with four masks within strapwork interspersed with shells and baskets of flowers on reeded ground, each engraved with a coat-of-arms below a duke's coronet and above motto, marked on body of ewer and base of basin, and engraved with scratch weight 24.18 on ewer and 43.14 on basin

the ewer: 9 1/2 in. (24 cm.) high; the basin:14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm.) long

67 oz. 4 dwt. (2,091 gr.)





Provenance

Supplied by John White to Henry Scudamore (formerly Somerset), 3rd Duke of Beaufort (1707-1744), given or later bequeathed to his brother,

Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (1709-1756), then by descent to,

Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (1824-1899),

A Nobleman; Christie's, London, 13 June 1895, lot 69, (£269 to C. Davis).

With Charles Davis (1849-1914), London, antique dealer.

Sir Walter Farquhar 3rd Bt. (1810-1900), who married Lady Mary Octavia Somerset, daughter of the 6th Duke of Beaufort, by descent to their fourth son,

Granville Frederick Richard Farquhar (1849-1934) of Gwernyfed Park, Breconshire,

Granville Farquhar, removed from Gwernyfed Park, Three Cocks, Breconshire; Christie's, London, 19 March 1930, part of lot 29 (£3,700 to J. R. Thomas).

With Crichton Brothers, London, 1930.

A Gentleman; Christie's, London, 17 March 1999, lot 109.

An American Collector; Christie's, New York, 16 April 2004, lot 133.



Literature

The Burlington Magazine, 'The Antique Dealers' Fair and Exhibition', vol. 73, no. 178, p. xxii and pl. III, fig D.

E. Wenham, Domestic Silver of Great Britain and Ireland, 1931, pl. LXIX.

The Antique Collector, 'Silver Toilet Services', no. 19, May-June, 1948, p. 195, fig. 5.

C. Oman, English Engraved Silver, London, 1978, pp. 98- 99.

J. D. Davis, English Silver at Williamsburg, 1979, pp. 242- 244 cat. no. 273 passim.

A. J. H. Sale, The Silver Society Journal, 'Records of Plate of the Beaufort family in the Badminton Archives and elsewhere', no. 7, Autumn 1995, pp. 381-391 and its supplement.

A. J. H. Sale and V. Brett, The Silver Society Journal, 'John White: some recent research', no . 8, Autumn 1996, pp. 465-472.



Exhibited

London, Grosvenor House, The Antique Dealers' Fair and Exhibition, 1930, Crichton Brothers.



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Artist:John White
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Gilding, Silver
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
Category:Bowls
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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