Live Auction 21907Bayreuth: A Connoisseur's Collection of English Silver and Gold Boxes
A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILT-COPPER CRUET STANDS WITH SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CUT-GLASS BOTTLES
Lot 24

A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILT-COPPER CRUET STANDS WITH SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CUT-GLASS BOTTLES

MOUNTS WITH MARK OF ROBERT HENNELL, LONDON, CIRCA 1775

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILT-COPPER CRUET STANDS WITH SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CUT-GLASS BOTTLES
MOUNTS WITH MARK OF ROBERT HENNELL, LONDON, CIRCA 1775
Each boat-shaped stand on four hoof feet with acanthus terminals, the everted sides with beaded borders and chased with husk garlands and ribbon-tied paterae, suspended from cast rams' masks, with two scrolling handles, the two detachable circular condiment holders with beaded borders, the cut-glass bottles with silver-gilt mounts with beaded border and ribbon-tied laurel garlands, the hinged cover with acanthus thumbpiece and engraved with an heraldic badge within garter motto and with Duke's coronet above, marked on collars and inside covers
the stands 14 in. (35.7 cm.) long
The heraldic badge is that of Percy for Hugh, 1st Duke of Northumberland K.G. (1714-1786).

Hugh, 1st Duke of Northumberland K.G. (1714-1786), and then by descent to,
Hugh, 10th Duke of Northumberland K.G. (1914-1988).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 May 1984, lot 106.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 June 2002, lot 68.

Specialist note


Sir Hugh Percy, originally Smithson, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1715-1786) married in 1740 Elizabeth Seymour, heiress of the Percy property, who was granddaughter of Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1736, and in 1756 was made a Knight of the Garter. He was privy counsellor and then lord-lieutenant of Ireland under Grenville from 1763-5. He was made duke in 1766, and was Master of the Horse under Lord North from 1778-80. The Duke employed the fashionable neoclassical architect Robert Adam to remodel his London palace Northumberland House and Syon House, his house West of London. These cruets were commissioned in a similar neoclassical style.