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A PAIR OF SILVER CHINOISERIE PORRINGERS AND COVERS OF WILLIAM III STYLE
Lot 92

A PAIR OF SILVER CHINOISERIE PORRINGERS AND COVERS OF WILLIAM III STYLE

MARK OF DANIEL & JOHN WELLBY, LONDON, 1929

Closed21 June 2011

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A PAIR OF SILVER CHINOISERIE PORRINGERS AND COVERS OF WILLIAM III STYLE
MARK OF DANIEL & JOHN WELLBY, LONDON, 1929
The bodies chased with ornamental pheasants and foliage, the covers chased with Chinese figures, flowering shrubs and pagodas, the bases inscribed Miles Jebb from his Godfather Harold Nicolson
4 3/8 in. (11.4 cm.) diameter
28.5 oz. (884 gr.) (2)

Specialist note

The inscription to the base refers to Miles Jebb son of Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn the prominant British politician, civil servant and diplomat, and Sir Harold Nicolson KVCO CMG, also a prominant British diplomat, author and politician, husband of the author and poet Vita Sackville-West.