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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER-GILT WAITERS

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£ 30 000
Auction dateClassic
08.02.2024 10:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 42 | A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER-GILT WAITERS
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER-GILT WAITERS

MARK OF WILLIAM BURWASH, LONDON, 1817

Circular, each on eight short bracket feet, the centres elaborately etched, chased and engraved with arabesque Renaissance style strapwork ornamented with foliage scrolls and cartouches, centred on the Hamilton heraldic badge of a cinquefoil ermine, with moulded borders, the underside finely engraved with two crests and mottos on scrolling ribbons, marked on reverse

7 in. (17.7 cm.) diameter

22 oz. 3 dwt. (689 gr.)

The crests are those of Beckford and Hamilton, for William Beckford (1760-1844) of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire.





Provenance

William Beckford (1760-1844), for Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire.

John Farquhar; Christie's, London,1822, day 6, lots 52 and 53 (Lot 52 as 'A Silver Gilt Gothic Salver Richly Chased and Engraved'; Lot 53, 'Ditto').

Probably sold Phillips', London, 1823, lots 825 and 826, and purchased back by William Beckford, by descent to his daughter,

Susanna Euphemia, Duchess of Hamilton (1786-1858) wife of Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767-1852), then by descent to their grandson,

William, 12th Duke of Hamilton (1845-1895), Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire; Christie's, London, 20 June 1882, lot 617, 'A PAIR OF CIRCULAR TRAYS, of silver-gilt, covered with ornaments of elaborate flat chasing, 7 in. diam., from the Beckford Collection', £78.15s to Durlacher.

Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, Bt. (and his wife Lady Octavia Grosvenor, who had inherited the Fonthill Abbey estate from her father the 2nd Marquess of Westminster, who had acquired it in the 1850s) and by descent to,

Niel Rimington (1928-2009) of Fonthill Old Abbey, Wiltshire,

The Estate of the late Niel Rimington of Fonthill Old Abbey Estate, Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 27 January 2010, lot 1005, the pair.

With Koopman Rare Art, London, February, 2010.



Literature

J. Lees-Milne ed. William Beckford, exhibition catalogue, 1976, cat. no. C22 (one)

M. Snodin and M. Baker, The Burlington Magazine, 'William Beckford's Silver', vol. 122, no. 933, December, 1980, p. 744, and appendix A71, figs. 825 and 830.

D. E. Ostergard ed., William Beckford 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent, exhibition catalogue, Yale University Press, 2001, p. 378 and p. 425, no. 108 (one).



Exhibited

Salisbury, Salisbury Library and Bath, The Victoria Gallery, William Beckford, Salisbury, 22 April - 15 May, Bath 28 May - 12 June, 1976, cat. no. C22 (one only).

New York, Bard Graduate Centre, William Beckford 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent, 2001-2002, then London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2002, no. 108 (one only).
Artist:William Burwash
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Gilding, Silver
Place of origin:England, Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
Category:Tray
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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