A GEORGE III SILVER EPERGNE

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£ 12 000
Auction dateClassic
29.11.2023 10:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 1071226
Lot 69 | A GEORGE III SILVER EPERGNE
A GEORGE III SILVER EPERGNE

MARK OF THOMAS PITTS, LONDON, 1767

Shaped oval, on four scrolling openwork rocaille feet, with cast flower and foliage apron, with a central boat-shaped basket and four branches with shaped circular dishes and two branches for the circular baskets and swing handles, pierced with basket weave and with foliage scroll rims, the central basket engraved with a coat-of-arms, the dishes with a crest, all with baron's coronet above, in original fitted wood case, marked on stand, basket, dishes, branches and swing handles, the branches all numbered, the central basket with scratchweight 154=0

15 ¼ in. (38.8 cm.) high

148 oz. 9 dwt. (4,618 gr.)

The arms are those of Sandys quartering others impaling Colebrooke, for Edwin Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys (1726-1797), and his wife Anna Maria (d. 1806), daughter of James Colebrooke (1680-1752), whom he married in 1769.





Provenance

Edwin Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys (1726–1797), thence by descent.



Literature

A. Oswald, 'Ombersley Court, Worcestershire - II', Country Life, 9 January 1953, p. 96, pl. 7.
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