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A Set of Four George III Silver Wine Coolers, Daniel Smith & Robert Sharp, London, 1776

Auction Closed

October 16, 06:35 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

vase form applied with swags of grapevine spreading from entwined branch handles, engraved with contemporary arms, marked on bases


213 oz 10 dwt

6643 g

Height 9 5/8 in.

24.5 cm

Maldwin Drummond, Esq.,

Christie's, London, 10 November 1971

Antiquity Unveiled, Masterworks, 1760-1840, Koopman Rare Art, London, June 3-25, 2010

Antiquity Unveiled, Masterworks 1760-1840, Koopman Rare Art, 2010, p. 14-15, no. 7

Michael Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver (Oxford, 1985), illustrated p. 232, no. 2

The arms are those of Blatchford of Osborne, Isle of Wight impaling Downham