GEORGE, PRINCE OF WALES: AN IMPORTANT SET OF THREE GERMAN SILVER-GILT CASTERS

Lot 8
27.01.2023 12:00UTC +00:00
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$ 40 000
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Lot 8 | GEORGE, PRINCE OF WALES: AN IMPORTANT SET OF THREE GERMAN SILVER-GILT CASTERS
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$ 40 000 – 60 000
GEORGE, PRINCE OF WALES: AN IMPORTANT SET OF THREE GERMAN SILVER-GILT CASTERS

MARK OF LEWIN DEDEKE, CELLE, 1722-23

Comprising a sugar caster and pepper caster of octagonal baluster form on stepped domed bases, engraved with crest and motto of George II as Prince of Wales above applied mid-rib, the foliate pierced covers with press-button releases, the mustard caster with blind foliate piercing, with baluster finials, marked on undersides and with assay scrapes

8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm.) high, the sugar caster

35 oz. 4 dwt. (1,095 gr.) gross weight





Provenance

George, Prince of Wales, later King George II of England and Elector of Hanover (r.1727-1760).

By descent in the Royal family of Great Britain and Hanover until the death of King William IV in 1837, at which time the two kingdoms became separate under different monarchs.

Ernest Augustus, 1st Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (r.1837-1851), fifth son of King George III of Great Britain and brother of King William IV.

By descent to his grandson the Duke of Brunswick (1845-1923).

With Crichton Brothers, London, sold 24 October 1923.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 19 November 1996, lot 56.

Partridge Fine Arts, London, 1998.
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