Lot 228
  • 228

A George IV Silver Wine Cooler, Philip Rundell, London, 1820

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on body, collar and liner, body numbered 1, collar 2, liner 4
  • height 10 1/8 in.
  • 26cm
of partially gadrooned campana form with ovolo borders, the twisted vine branch handles spreading into applied leaves and grapes below the rim, engraved on both sides with contemporary arms and supporters beneath a baron's coronet in the manner of Walter Jackson, the detachable collar and liner with conforming crest and coronet

Provenance

The arms are those of Harbord with Venables-Vernon in pretense for Edward Harbor, 3rd Baron Suffield and his first wife Georgiana, heiress of George Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron Vernon of Kinderton. 

Condition

good condition
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Catalogue Note

Edward Harbor was born in 1781 and created baron in August 1821.  M.A. 23 June 1802, adm. Lincoln's Inn on 24 April 1802, M.P. (Whig) for Yarmouth, Norfolk, 1806-12, and Shaftesbury, 1820-21, declaring himself "a Liberal" in 1819.  He was an advocate for the abolition of the slave-trade, the reform of prison discipline and the relaxation of game laws.  Edward and Georgiana were married on 19 September 1809.  As the only surviving daughter she "was a great heiress... and Vernon House, the family jewels, and the family plate went with her".  She died in 1824, and he in 1835.