A GEORGE II SILVER SHAVING SET FROM THE WARRINGTON PLATE

Lot 147
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Lot 147 | A GEORGE II SILVER SHAVING SET FROM THE WARRINGTON PLATE
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£ 50 000 – 80 000
A GEORGE II SILVER SHAVING SET FROM THE WARRINGTON PLATE

MARK OF JAMES SHRUDER, LONDON, 1744

Comprising a plain oval shaving bowl, a shaving jug and a soap box, the bowl with moulded rim and neck-notch, the jug of oval section on spreading foot and with wood scroll handle, the stepped cover with baluster finial, the spherical soap box on spreading circular foot, the hinged domed cover with moulded border, the bowl and jug each engraved with a coat-of-arms, the soap-ball box engraved with an earl's coronet and initials G.W., each marked on base and cover, engraved on underside with scratchweights: bowl, 35:3, jug, 21:28, box, 14 oz.:13 dwt.

the shaving bowl 123/4 in. (32.5 cm.) long; the jug 7 3/4 in. (19.5 cm.) high

gross weight 71 oz. (2,208 gr.) (2,233 gr.)





Provenance

George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (1675-1758), of Dunham Massey, Cheshire, and then by descent to his daughter,

Lady Mary Booth (1704-1772), wife of Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford (1715-1768), by descent to their son,

George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (1737-1819) and his wife Lady Henrietta Bentinck (1727-1837) and by descent to,

Catherine, Lady Grey (1860-1925) of Enville Hall, Staffordshire, her son Sir John Foley-Grey 8th Bt. (1893-1938),

Catherine, Lady Grey and Sir John Foley-Grey; Christie's, London, 20 April 1921, lot 151 (the soap box), and Sir John Foley-Grey, sold Christie's, London, 25 February 1931, lot 58 (the bowl and jug).

A Gentleman; Christie's, New York, 24 October 2002, lot 296.



Literature

George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington, The Particular of my Plate and its Weight, ms: folio 5, described as 'A Trimming Bason 35:03. Ewer 21:18. Wash Ball Box 14:13, 71:14' .

M. Clayton, The Collector's Dictionary of Silver and Gold in Great Britain and North America, Woodbridge, 1985, pl. 509.

J. Herbert and M. Wrey ed., Christie's Review of the Season, London, 1987.

C. Truman ed., The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, London, 1989, no. 87, p. 122.

J. Lomax and J. Rothwell, Country House Silver from Dunham Massey, National Trust, 2006, p. 45, n. 22, and p. 171, n. 101.



Exhibited

London, Christie's, The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, London, 1989, no. 87.



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