STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics

STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics

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Property of a Lady

A GEORGE III SILVER TEA URN, ROBERT SHARP, LONDON, 1792

Auction Closed

October 25, 08:20 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Lady

A GEORGE III SILVER TEA URN, ROBERT SHARP, LONDON, 1792


partly-fluted urn form with gadroon borders, the front engraved with accollé arms, motto, and supporters under Duke's coronet, the cover crested within garter below coronet, with removable flame finial, interior with cylinder for heating rod with detachable silver collar and an iron plug, all silver pieces engraved F & C (1) below coronet

marked throughout

129 oz 10 dwt gross excluding plug

4030.5 g

height 17 ¼ in.

44 cm

The arms are those of Osborne impaling D'Arcy for Francis Godolphin, 5th Duke of Leeds K.G., Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1783-91, and his second wife, whom he married in 1788, Catherine, daughter of Thomas Anguish, accountant general of the Court of Chancery. He died in 1799.