A GEORGE III SILVER TWO-HANDLED TEA URN

Lot 86
29.11.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 86 | A GEORGE III SILVER TWO-HANDLED TEA URN
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£ 1 500 – 2 500
A GEORGE III SILVER TWO-HANDLED TEA URN

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.





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Edwin Sandys, later 2nd Baron Sandys (1726-1797), then by descent.
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