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Lot 109
10.02.2022 11:00UTC +00:00
Classic
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£ 237 500
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 109 | THE LORD DUCIE'S CHINOISERIE BOWLS AND COVERSA CHINESE EXPORT SILVER-GILT BOWL AND COVER, A MATCHING BOWL AND COVER AND A PAIR OF SILVER-GILT PLINTHS
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 80 000
The plinths each of stepped square section with canted corners resting on anthemion scroll feet, the octagonal bowls with conforming domed covers and onion-shaped finials, chased and applied with reserves of figures in Chinese lanscapes with birds, animals and flowering branches on matted ground, engraved on the plinths with a coat-of-arms with baron's coronet above, the Chinese bowl engraved with an inscription on the foot and further indistinct inscription underneath, with scratch weight '34=16', the George III silver marked on bowl, cover, finial and pedestals, further stamped '237', bowl and pedestals stamped '1' and '2' and 'RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFCES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALLIAE'
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high overall
227 oz. 2 dwt. (7,065 gr.)
The arms on the plinths are those of Reynolds quartering Moreton and others impaling Herbert, for Thomas Reynolds Moreton, 4th Baron Ducie, later 1st Earl of Ducie, (1776–1840) and his wife Lady Frances Herbert, daughter of Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon, whom he married in 1797.

The inscription on the foot of the Chinese export bowl reads 'This Font was taken from the Cathedral Church of Lima'.

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