A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER-GILT SAUCEBOATS

Lot 127
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Lot 127 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER-GILT SAUCEBOATS
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£ 20 000 – 30 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER-GILT SAUCEBOATS

ATTRIBUTED TO NICHOLAS SPRIMONT OR PAUL CRESPIN, LONDON, CIRCA 1750

Each boat-shaped on shell-shaped spreading foot cast and chased with bands of shells, seaweed and rocaille, the fluted body with scalloped rim with similar ornament, the scroll handle fluted to imitate a shell, each engraved on the side with a crest within the motto of the Order of the Bath and with earl's coronet above, engraved underneath with scratchweights 14=11 and 13=10; apparently unmarked

71/4 in. (18.4 cm.) long

28 oz. 10 dwt. (890 gr.)

The crest is that of Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarbrough K.B. (b.c.1691-1752).





Provenance

Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarbrough K.B. (b.c.1691-1752), of Sandbeck Park, Yorkshire, then by descent to his son,

Richard Lumley-Saunderson, 4th Earl of Scarbrough (b.c.1725-1782), of Sandbeck Park, Yorkshire

A Superb Table Service of Gilt Plate...Property of the late Earl of Scarbrough, deceased, brought from his Lordship's seat at Sandbeck in Yorkshire; Christie's, London, 17 June 1785, lot 35 or 36 (both lots £15 to Jacobs).

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 21 April 1998, lot 234.



Literature

M. Snodin ed., Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England, London, 1984, p. 115.

B. Carver Wees, English, Irish and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, New York, 1997, p. 168. n. 5.

C. Hartop, The Huguenot Legacy, English Silver 1680-1760, from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection, London, 1996, p. 219, n. 3.



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