Online Auction 20673The Collector: English & European Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER TWO-HANDLED SAUCE TUREENS AND COVERS
Lot 58

A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER TWO-HANDLED SAUCE TUREENS AND COVERS

MARK OF ROBERT HENNELL I, LONDON, 1778

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER TWO-HANDLED SAUCE TUREENS AND COVERS
MARK OF ROBERT HENNELL I, LONDON, 1778
Each oval with beaded borders and on a conforming foot, with two up-swung reeded loop handles, the covers similarly decorated and with beaded ring finial, engraved on cover and side of body with a coat-of-arms suspended by a ribbon and bellflowers, dot numbered, marked on underside and flange of cover
9 5⁄8 in. (24.4 cm.) long, over handles
50 oz. 2 dwt. (1,558 gr.)

Job Hanmer (1749 - 1814), of Holbrooke Hall, Sudbury, Suffolk.
Possibly Helen Rose, Lady Dewar (d.1935), wife of the late Sir James Dewar of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, sold,
Christie’s, London, 27 March 1935, lot 38.

Specialist note

The arms found on the present lot are those of Hanmer quartering Warner and Carnham impaling Syer, for Job Hanmer (1749 - 1814), of Holbrooke Hall, Sudbury, Suffolk and his wife Maris (d.1784), daughter of John Syer of Lavenham, whom he married in 1779. An oval waiter of 1778 engraved with the same arms was sold Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 22-23 January 2013, lot 548.

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