ID 375941
Lot 124 | A GEORGE III SILVER CUP AND COVER
Estimate value
£ 1 500 – 2 500
THE CUP WITH MARK OF CHARLES WRIGHT, LONDON, 1770, THE COVER 1771
Baluster shaped on gadrooned foot, with leaf-capped scroll handles, the domed cover with double shell finial, engraved with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet, the cover with a crest, marked under foot and on cover bezel
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
55 oz. 9 dwt. (1,726 gr.)
The arms are those of Bathurst quartering others impaling Scawen, for Henry, Baron Bathurst, later 2nd Earl of Bathurst (1714-1794) and his second wife Tryphenia (d. 1807), daughter of Thomas Scawen of Maidwell, whom he married in 1759.
| Medium: | Silver |
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| Place of origin: | Northern Europe |
| Category: | Cups |
| Medium: | Silver |
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| Place of origin: | Northern Europe |
| Category: | Cups |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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