Live Auction 7999Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Glass, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A SET OF SIX GEORGE IV SCOTTISH SILVER WINE-COASTERS
Lot 347 PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN COLLECTION

A SET OF SIX GEORGE IV SCOTTISH SILVER WINE-COASTERS

MARK OF ROBERT GRAY AND SONS, GLASGOW, 1820

Closed29 November 2011

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A SET OF SIX GEORGE IV SCOTTISH SILVER WINE-COASTERS
MARK OF ROBERT GRAY AND SONS, GLASGOW, 1820
Each cylindrical, the sides cast and chased with fruiting grapevines between gadrooned lower border and egg-and-dart upper border, the turned wood bases each set with a boss with an engraved crest, each marked on base and boss
5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm.) diam.
The crest is that of Horsburgh. (6)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 December 1988, lot 134.
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano and then by descent to the present owner.