A pair of early Victorian silver-gilt wine coolers, Mary and Richard II Sibley, London, 1837

campana form, the domed vases with scrolled rims, the bodies applied with fully modeled grapevine with matted leaves, forming handles, flaring rims chased as spume, engraved on both sides with contemporary arms, plain liners with fixed rims, engraved on rims and sides with matching crest under coronet.

Christie's Geneva, November 8, 1977, lot 36

as noted re: Storr liners, regilt, good crisp condition
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The arms are those of Bampfylde impaling Buller for George Warwick Bampfylde, 1st Baron Poltimore (1786-1858), and his second wife Caroline, daughter of General Frederick William Buller, whom he married in 1836.   He was the son of Sir Charles Bampfylde, 5th Baronet, M.P. for Exeter, who in 1823 was shot by an ex-servant in front of his house in Montague Square.  His son, the 2nd Baron Poltimore, was Treasurer of the Household under Gladstone in the 1870s.

Mary Sibley was the widow of silversmith RIchard I Sibley, who entered his first mark in 1803 and died in 1836.  Their son, Richard II Sibley, apprenticed to his father in 1821, continued the business with his mother by entering a mark in 1836, at his father's address of 30 Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell; however, just a year later Richard II registered a second mark on his own.