ID 992703
Lot 127 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER-GILT SAUCEBOATS
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
ATTRIBUTED TO NICHOLAS SPRIMONT OR PAUL CRESPIN, LONDON, CIRCA 1750
Each boat-shaped on shell-shaped spreading foot cast and chased with bands of shells, seaweed and rocaille, the fluted body with scalloped rim with similar ornament, the scroll handle fluted to imitate a shell, each engraved on the side with a crest within the motto of the Order of the Bath and with earl's coronet above, engraved underneath with scratchweights 14=11 and 13=10; apparently unmarked
71/4 in. (18.4 cm.) long
28 oz. 10 dwt. (890 gr.)
The crest is that of Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarbrough K.B. (b.c.1691-1752).
Provenance
Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarbrough K.B. (b.c.1691-1752), of Sandbeck Park, Yorkshire, then by descent to his son,
Richard Lumley-Saunderson, 4th Earl of Scarbrough (b.c.1725-1782), of Sandbeck Park, Yorkshire
A Superb Table Service of Gilt Plate...Property of the late Earl of Scarbrough, deceased, brought from his Lordship's seat at Sandbeck in Yorkshire; Christie's, London, 17 June 1785, lot 35 or 36 (both lots £15 to Jacobs).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 21 April 1998, lot 234.
Literature
M. Snodin ed., Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England, London, 1984, p. 115.
B. Carver Wees, English, Irish and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, New York, 1997, p. 168. n. 5.
C. Hartop, The Huguenot Legacy, English Silver 1680-1760, from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection, London, 1996, p. 219, n. 3.
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Gilding, Silver |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Gilding, Silver |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
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