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Lot 366
A GEORGE II SILVER KETTLE, STAND AND LAMP
MARK OF CHARLES KANDLER, LONDON, 1729, BRITANNIA STANDARD
Closed4 June 2013
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GBP 27,500
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A GEORGE II SILVER KETTLE, STAND AND LAMP
MARK OF CHARLES KANDLER, LONDON, 1729, BRITANNIA STANDARD
Melon fluted, the shoulder and hinged cover engraved with a band of foliage scrolls and latticework with portrait busts, the hinged cover with part-ivory finial, with an overhead part-wood swing handle, the stand on three scroll legs, each capped with a grotesque mask and connected by an openwork skirt, the lamp with cast band of ovolo, the detachable cover with hinged lid, the body engraved on each side with a coat-of-arms, each flanked on each side with a later crest below a baron's coronet, the lamp engraved with a crest, later engraved underneath 'W de E' and dated '1866', marked under kettle and stand, further engraved under the kettle with a scratchweight '119'
15½ in. (39.3 cm.) high
gross weight 117 oz. 12 dwt. (3,657 gr.)
The arms are those of Abbott impaling another, possibly Lagier Lamotte. If the identification of the wife's arms is correct then arms are for Sir Charles Abobott, 1st Baron Tenterden (1762-1832) and his wife Mary, daughter of John Lagier Lamotte of Grotto House, Basildon, whom he married in 1795. Lord Tenterden was the son of a Canterbury hairdresser who was educated at Kings School Canterbury, whose trustees paid for his Oxford Unversity eduction. He became a respected barrister and judge and was created a peer in 1827.
MARK OF CHARLES KANDLER, LONDON, 1729, BRITANNIA STANDARD
Melon fluted, the shoulder and hinged cover engraved with a band of foliage scrolls and latticework with portrait busts, the hinged cover with part-ivory finial, with an overhead part-wood swing handle, the stand on three scroll legs, each capped with a grotesque mask and connected by an openwork skirt, the lamp with cast band of ovolo, the detachable cover with hinged lid, the body engraved on each side with a coat-of-arms, each flanked on each side with a later crest below a baron's coronet, the lamp engraved with a crest, later engraved underneath 'W de E' and dated '1866', marked under kettle and stand, further engraved under the kettle with a scratchweight '119'
15½ in. (39.3 cm.) high
gross weight 117 oz. 12 dwt. (3,657 gr.)
The arms are those of Abbott impaling another, possibly Lagier Lamotte. If the identification of the wife's arms is correct then arms are for Sir Charles Abobott, 1st Baron Tenterden (1762-1832) and his wife Mary, daughter of John Lagier Lamotte of Grotto House, Basildon, whom he married in 1795. Lord Tenterden was the son of a Canterbury hairdresser who was educated at Kings School Canterbury, whose trustees paid for his Oxford Unversity eduction. He became a respected barrister and judge and was created a peer in 1827.
A GEORGE II SILVER KETTLE, STAND AND LAMP
MARK OF CHARLES KANDLER, LONDON, 1729, BRITANNIA STANDARD
Melon fluted, the shoulder and hinged cover engraved with a band of foliage scrolls and latticework with portrait busts, the hinged cover with part-ivory finial, with an overhead part-wood swing handle, the stand on three scroll legs, each capped with a grotesque mask and connected by an openwork skirt, the lamp with cast band of ovolo, the detachable cover with hinged lid, the body engraved on each side with a coat-of-arms, each flanked on each side with a later crest below a baron's coronet, the lamp engraved with a crest, later engraved underneath 'W de E' and dated '1866', marked under kettle and stand, further engraved under the kettle with a scratchweight '119'
15½ in. (39.3 cm.) high
gross weight 117 oz. 12 dwt. (3,657 gr.)
The arms are those of Abbott impaling another, possibly Lagier Lamotte. If the identification of the wife's arms is correct then arms are for Sir Charles Abobott, 1st Baron Tenterden (1762-1832) and his wife Mary, daughter of John Lagier Lamotte of Grotto House, Basildon, whom he married in 1795. Lord Tenterden was the son of a Canterbury hairdresser who was educated at Kings School Canterbury, whose trustees paid for his Oxford Unversity eduction. He became a respected barrister and judge and was created a peer in 1827.
MARK OF CHARLES KANDLER, LONDON, 1729, BRITANNIA STANDARD
Melon fluted, the shoulder and hinged cover engraved with a band of foliage scrolls and latticework with portrait busts, the hinged cover with part-ivory finial, with an overhead part-wood swing handle, the stand on three scroll legs, each capped with a grotesque mask and connected by an openwork skirt, the lamp with cast band of ovolo, the detachable cover with hinged lid, the body engraved on each side with a coat-of-arms, each flanked on each side with a later crest below a baron's coronet, the lamp engraved with a crest, later engraved underneath 'W de E' and dated '1866', marked under kettle and stand, further engraved under the kettle with a scratchweight '119'
15½ in. (39.3 cm.) high
gross weight 117 oz. 12 dwt. (3,657 gr.)
The arms are those of Abbott impaling another, possibly Lagier Lamotte. If the identification of the wife's arms is correct then arms are for Sir Charles Abobott, 1st Baron Tenterden (1762-1832) and his wife Mary, daughter of John Lagier Lamotte of Grotto House, Basildon, whom he married in 1795. Lord Tenterden was the son of a Canterbury hairdresser who was educated at Kings School Canterbury, whose trustees paid for his Oxford Unversity eduction. He became a respected barrister and judge and was created a peer in 1827.
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