A GEORGE IV SILVER CENTREPIECE

Lot 119
23.10.2024 18:00UTC +00:00
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£ 75 600
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1309846
Lot 119 | A GEORGE IV SILVER CENTREPIECE
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
On shaped triangular base cast and chased with waves resting on turtles, shell and coral, the large shell shaped body held by three seahorses, engraved on lip with two coats-of-arms, marked on body and base
141/2 in. (37 cm.) wide
284 oz. 10 dwt. (8,849 gr.)
The first arms are those Nisbet quartering Hamilton in pretence and Nisbet quartering Hamilton in a lozenge, for John Fergusson M.P. (1770-1840), of Raith, Fife and Portman Square, London, and his second wife Mary (d.1855), daughter and heiress of William Hamilton Nisbet (1747-1822) of Dirleton and Belhaven, co. Haddington, formerly wife of Thomas, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841) from whom she was divorced by Act of Parliament in 1808. Fergusson and Mary Hamilton Nisbet were married in 1808.

One his death Ferguson's estates passed to his brother Sir Ronald Crawfurd Ferguson G.C.B. M.P. (1777-1841).
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