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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT TANKARDS
Lot 392

A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT TANKARDS

MARK OF EDWARD FARRELL, LONDON, 1820

Closed4 June 2013

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT TANKARDS
MARK OF EDWARD FARRELL, LONDON, 1820
Each cylindrical on spreading foot chased with flowers and foliage on a textured ground, the sides of one chased with chickens the other with foxes, each within rural landscape, each with a cast female capped foliage handle, the hinged cover with a cast bird finial, each marked near handle and on cover, with wood base, contained in a fitted metal bound oak box, the hinged cover applied with a plaque engraved 'John Clifton Esq'
12½ in. (31.6 cm.) high (2)

Probably John Clifton (1764-1832) of Lytham Hall, co. Lancashire.

Specialist note

John Clifton (1764-1832) inherited from his father Thomas in 1783. It was Thomas Clifton who has built Lytham Hall having married Lady Jane Bertie, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Abingdon. John married in 1785. His wife Elizabeth was the daughter of a Northumbrian landowner Thomas Riddell who has extensive estates at Felton Park and Swinburne Castle. He inherited a magnificent Palladian house built by John Carr of York between 1752 and 1764.