A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER
Lot 183 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION 

A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER

MARK OF FREDERICK KANDLER, LONDON, 1763

Closed19 October 2012

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USD 9,375

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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER
MARK OF FREDERICK KANDLER, LONDON, 1763
Vase-form on a circular foot, the body repousse and chased with grapevines, scrolls, rocaille and fruit festoons, the domed cover with corresponding decoration and surmounted by a kneeling putto finial, the two leaf and grape-clad double scroll handles surmounted by goat's heads, each side of body engraved with a Baron's coat-of-arms, fully marked on cover bezel and under base
17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm.) high; 99 oz. (3,081 gr.)

Christie's, New York, 25 October 2000,
lot 559

Specialist note

The arms are those of Arundell with those of Conquest in pretence for Henry, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour (1740-1808) and his wife Maria Christiana, only daughter and heiress of Benedict Conquest of Irnham, Lincolnshire. They married on May 31, 1763.