A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER TEASPOONS AND A PAIR OF SUGAR NIPS EN SUITE

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08.02.2024 10:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 32 | A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER TEASPOONS AND A PAIR OF SUGAR NIPS EN SUITE
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER TEASPOONS AND A PAIR OF SUGAR NIPS EN SUITE

MARK OF JOHN ROBINS, LONDON, 1818

The spoons and nips with melon fluted bowls, the openwork handles with paired stems and scroll finials, the centre of the nips engraved with two crests, marked on handles

The tongs 5 5⁄8 in. (14.3 cm.) long

The spoons 5 ¼ in. (13.5 cm.) long

10 oz. 19 dwt. (342 gr.)

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





Provenance

William Beckford (1760-1844), of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, later Lansdown Tower, Bath, 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,

Angus Alan Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton and 12th Duke of Brandon (1938-2010).



Literature

D. E. Ostergard, ed., William Beckford 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 381, no. 114.



Exhibited

New York, Bard Graduate Centre, William Beckford 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent, 2001-2002, then London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2002, no. 114.
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