Live Auction 17346Visions of Collecting: Royal and Aristocratic, An Important Private Collection
TWO GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUPS AND COVERS
Lot 118

TWO GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUPS AND COVERS

MARK OF WILLIAM BURWASH, LONDON, 1817

Closed19 September 2019

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TWO GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUPS AND COVERS
MARK OF WILLIAM BURWASH, LONDON, 1817
Partly-fluted vase-shaped and on domed foot, with scrolling foliage border on a matted ground, with oval plaque of two jockeys and horses racing, the reeded handles with lions' mask terminals, the domed cover with acanthus bud finial, marked on bases and one cover, one marked under foot, one on body, both covers marked, one engraved on foot-rim 'Wm GRAY FECIT LONDON', the other 'W. GRAY NEW BOND ST. FECIT'
14 ¾ (37.5 cm.) and 15 in.(38.3 cm.) high
255 oz. 16 dwt. (7,957 gr.)

Hugh, 12th Earl of Eglinton K.T. (1739-1819), by descent to
Archibald, 16th Earl of Eglinton and Winton (1880-1945)
The Earl of Eglinton and Winton; Christie's London, 12 July 1922, lots 27 and 28 (£68 and £73 to Comyns)
The Hon. Clive Pearson (1897-1965)
The Parham Park Trust; Christie's, London, 15 June 2004, lot 35.