A GEORGE III GOLD VASE AND COVER

Lot 85
07.07.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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£ 17 640
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Lot 85 | A GEORGE III GOLD VASE AND COVER
Valeur estimée
£ 20 000 – 30 000
A GEORGE III GOLD VASE AND COVER

BY CORNELIUS BLAND (FL. 1772-1796), LONDON, 1780

On square plinth with foliate scroll borders, the ovoid body on beaded spreading foot partly fluted and chased with drapery swags, the detachable cover with foliate scroll and rosette border, on a matted ground, and with flame finial, engraved with a coat-of-arms within oval cartouche, in fitted silk lined leather case, marked underneath, inside the body and on cover

the vase 4 3/4 in. (12 cm.) high

2 oz. 17 dwt. (90 gr.)

The arms are those of Brocas quartering des Roches impaling Hunter quartering Barnard, for Mrs Harriet Brocas (1742-1819), of Wokefield, Berkshire, daughter of Henry Lannoy Hunter (1709-1768) and widow of Bernard Brocas (d.1777), of Wokefield.





Provenance

Mrs Harriet Brocas (1742-1819), of Wokefield Park, Berkshire, by bequest to her niece,

Mary Manning (1771-1847), daughter to Henry Lannoy Hunter (1738-1789) of Beech Hill, Reading, and wife of William Manning (1763-1835), of Coombe Bank, Sevenoaks, Kent.

Mrs de Groote; Christie's, London, 21 November 1967, lot 135.

A Gentleman; Christie's, London, 13 June 2001, lot 83.



Literature

The Will of Harriet Brocas (1742-1819), Public Record Mss., PROB 11/1617/170, '...to my niece Mary Manning second daughter of my brother Henry Hunter the little gold urn...'



Special notice

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