A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER SAUCE-TUREENS, COVERS AND STANDS

Lot 36
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ID 992726
Lot 36 | A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER SAUCE-TUREENS, COVERS AND STANDS
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER SAUCE-TUREENS, COVERS AND STANDS

MARK OF BENJAMIN SMITH, LONDON, 1808

Each octagonal and applied with a band of trailing vine, the stands on four ball feet, the tureens on four cast lion's paw and Egyptian sphinx mask feet, with lion's mask and drop-ring cornucopia handles, the covers with serpent handles above a calyx of peapods and foliage, each applied with a coat-of-arms within a drapery cartouche, marked on foot-rim, base, side handles, cover, cover calyx and finial

7 in. (19 cm.) long

88 oz. 2 dwt. (2,741 gr.)





Provenance

A Lady; Christie's, London, 28 October 1964, lot 58 (£760 to Rayman).

A Gentleman; Christie's, London, 20 November 2001, lot 58.



Literature

J. B. Hawkins, The Al Tajir Collection of Silver and Gold, London, 1983, vol. I, pp. 106-107.

C. Truman ed., The Glory of the Goldsmith, Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al Tajir Collection, London, 1989, no. 124, p. 162.



Exhibited

London, Christie's, The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, no. 124.



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