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A VICTORIAN SILVER EWER
Lot 104

A VICTORIAN SILVER EWER

MARK OF JAMES CHARLES EDINGTON, LONDON, 1841

Closed19 May 2010

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A VICTORIAN SILVER EWER
MARK OF JAMES CHARLES EDINGTON, LONDON, 1841
Scroll form, on hexafoil base, with leaf-clad handle and shell-form spout, engraved with a crest and inscribed Acton Tindal Esquire DONO DEDIT Jan. 1849, with grapevine cover, marked on body and cover
12 1/8 in. (30.8 cm.) high; 29 oz. 10 dwt. (918 gr.)

Specialist note

Acton Tindal (1811-1880) was a significant landowner in Buckinghamshire. His wife was a poetess of some fame.

A ewer of this form, by James Charles Edington, dated 1849, is illustrated in John Culme, Nineteenth Century Silver, 1977, p. 153.