Live Auction 2259Important Objects of Vertu, English, Continental and American Silver
Christie’s roundel
Lot 172 PROPERTY FROM A NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTOR

TWO GEORGE III SHEFFIELD-PLATED EGG CODDLERS

CIRCA 1815, ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHEW BOULTON

Closed22 May 2009

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TWO GEORGE III SHEFFIELD-PLATED EGG CODDLERS
CIRCA 1815, ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHEW BOULTON
Each set on circular frame with three paw feet and detachable burner, the circular body with three or four compartments, with gadrooned border and removable leaf-capped ring central standard, apparently unmarked
Each 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) diameter, the larger 9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high (2)

Great Tew Park, sold Christie's, 27 May 1987, lot 763
Christie's, New York, 19 October 2004, lot 977

Specialist note

Matthew Robinson Boulton (1770-1842), son of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), the great entrepreneur and famed manufacturer of Sheffield plate, purchased Great Tew Park in 1815, which he subsequently furnished and decorated. Many of the Sheffield-plated lots from the Great Tew Park sale in 1987 were manufactured by Matthew Boulton & Co. Unmarked Sheffield plate presumably would have been sourced from the family firm.