ID 1071233
Lot 86 | A GEORGE III SILVER TWO-HANDLED TEA URN
Estimate value
£ 1 500 – 2 500
MARK OF THOMAS WHIPHAM AND CHARLES WRIGHT, LONDON, 1766
The inverted pear shaped body engraved with a coat-of-arms, with two leaf-capped scroll handles, a spout with ivory handle, supported on a square base with an openwork gallery and four scroll feet, the detachable cover with a fluted rim and finial, marked inside body and on cover, engraved with scratchweight 82:11
19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) high
Gross weight 80 oz. 12 dwt. (2,507 gr.)
The arms are those of Sandys with a label of cadency 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, later 2nd Baron Sandys (1726-1797), then by descent.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Historical era: | Georgian period |
| Place of origin: | England, Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Category: | Urn |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Vases and vessels |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Historical era: | Georgian period |
| Place of origin: | England, Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Category: | Urn |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Vases and vessels |
| Address of auction |
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