A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT SHIELD

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ID 992661
Lot 9 | A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT SHIELD
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A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT SHIELD

MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1843, DESIGNED BY FRANK HOWARD

Circular, with ribbon-tied reeded border, deeply cast and chased with a scene of Boudicca, the Queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, and her daughters in a chariot leading her warriors against the Roman Army, engraved on reverse with 'WON BY EMPEROR', and engraved on the rim PUBLISHED AS THE ACT DIRECTS BY HUNT & ROSKELL 156 NEW BOND STREET LONDON No 1010, marked near border, the back further stamped 'Hunt & Roskell Late Storr, Mortimer & Hunt 1429'

29 in. (74 cm.) diameter

352 oz. 14 dwt. (10,971 gr.)





Provenance

Won by the Earl of Albemarle’s chestnut horse The Emperor, The Ascot Gold Cup, 8 June 1844,

William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle G.C.H. (1772-1849).

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 February 1986, lot 63.

A Gentleman; Christie's, London, 16 November 2010, lot 497.



Literature

The Illustrated London News, 'The Ascot Prize Plate, 1844', 8 June 1844, p. 371.



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