Property from an Important Private Collection (Lots 76-87)
A George II silver-gilt cup and cover, Edward Wakelin after a design by William Kent, London, 1758
Auction Closed
May 22, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Campana form, the foot with a foliate border and rising acanthus leaves, the body with a band of intertwining foliage, with two scroll handles, the cover with a gadrooned rim and crown finial, engraved with the royal arms.
35.5cm, 14in. high
2069gr., 66½oz
Supplied by George Wickes and Samuel Netherton on 3 January 1759,
with Richard Jarvis, by 2005,
sold Christie's, London, 29 November 2016, lot 159
Wickes and Netherton, George Wickes and Samuel Netherton's Gentleman's Ledger, 1759.
The present lot is based on the gold cup designed for Col. James Pelham (1683-1761) by William Kent (and supplied by George Wickes in 1736), published in 1744 by John Vardy in Some Designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. William Kent (pl. 28). The present lot differs from the Pelham cup in the choice of finial: a royal crown instead of Prince of Wales feathers.
A cup of the same design as the present lot, marked for Thomas Heming, London, 1763 and engraved with the royal arms was given by George III as a christening present to George Ferdinand Fitzroy and appears in the Royal Jewell Office records on 17 December 1763 ('one gilt cup and cover - wt 73oz 3dwt'). The presence of the royal arms on the present lot suggests that it was also a christening gift from George II, but no cup of matching weight appears in the records around 1758/59. A 'large gilt cup and cover' of 130oz was supplied by Samuel Netherton on 28 March 1759 as a gift to the Earl of Coventry's son.1
Notes
1. National Archives, Kew, LC 9/45.
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