A GEORGE III SILVER CUP AND COVER

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22.07.2020 11:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 124 | A GEORGE III SILVER CUP AND COVER
A GEORGE III SILVER CUP AND COVER

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.

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