Live Auction 1546The Raglan Collection: Wellington, Waterloo and The Crimea And Works of Art from the Collection of the Marquesses of Londonderry
A GEORGE II SILVER-GILT TANKARD
Lot 510

A GEORGE II SILVER-GILT TANKARD

MARK OF WILLIAM CRIPPS, LONDON, 1752

Closed23 May 2014

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A GEORGE II SILVER-GILT TANKARD
MARK OF WILLIAM CRIPPS, LONDON, 1752
Baluster shaped, on domed foot chased with vines and flowers, the body applied with rocaille and flowering branches around a central cartouche depicting bacchic putti frolicking with a goat, the similarly decorated hinged cover with putto-mask thumbpiece, later engraved inscription, marked underneath
11 in. (28 cm.) high
63 oz. 3 dwt. (1,964 gr.)
The inscription reads, 'To the Hon'ble Charles Stewart Vane from his affectionate Godmother Elizabeth Viscountess Castlereagh AD 1852'.

Elizabeth, Viscountess Castlereagh, Later Marchioness of Londonderry, by whom given to her nephew, Charles Stewart Vane Tempest Stewart, later 6th Marquess of Londonderry (1852-1915), presumably as a christening gift, and by descent.

Specialist note

The distinctive scene of a putto riding a bacchic goat, which appears on this tankard, also features on two punch bowls by Cripps, 1752 (one offered Sotheby's, New York, 9 October 1985, lot 140, the other, sold Christie's, New York, 15 April 1997, lot 326) and on a cup and cover of 1755, also from Cripps's workshop. Cripps was part of the circle of goldsmiths around Paul de Lamerie and designs such as this exemplify Lamerie's influence on Cripps (see C. Hartop, The Huguenot Legacy, English Silver 1680-1760 from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection, 1996, p. 52). A cup and cover of 1742 in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, by de Lamerie also employs this scene.