A pair of Irish silver small jugs, Thomas Jones, Dublin, 1787

engraved with contemporary accollé arms of an earl and a bishop, marked on bases.

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, April 16, 1996, lot 123
S.J. Phillips, London

minor dings, overall good condition, nice heavy weight
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The arms are those of Hervey accollé with the See of Derry for Frederick Augustus, Earl of Bristol, born 1730, admitted to Linc. Inn 1747, Clerk of the Privy Seal 1753-67, having taken Holy Orders became Chaplain to the King 1763, P.C. (Ireland) 1767, Bishop of Cloyne 1767-68, Bishop of Derry 1768-1803, Chaplain general to the Irish Volunteers 1782. In 1799 he succeeded to the Barony of Howard de Walden in right of his descent through his grandmother Elizabeth Felton wife of the 1st Earl of Bristol. He married in 1752 Elizabeth, sister and heir of Sir Charles Davers Bart. of  Rougham, Suffolk. She died at Ickworth in 1800 and he died in Albano near Rome in 1803.

Lord Charlemont, in his Memoirs, remarks that he verified Lord Chesterfield’s apothegm that “at the beginning God created three different species, men, women and Herveys” and adds “His genius is like a shallow stream, rapid, noisy, diverting but useless. Such is his head, and I fear it is much superior to his heart. He is proud and to the last degree vindictive, vain to excess.”  Sir Jonah Barrington in Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation  describes him as "Dressed in purple, with diamond knee and shoe buckles in white gloves with gold fringe and large gold tassels, seated "in an open landau, drawn by six  beautiful horses caparisoned with  purple ribands" and "escorted by a troop of light cavalry splendidly dressed and accoutred and mounted on the finest chargers that the Bishop or their commander could procure” with “trumpets announcing his approach.”