.jpg?maxwidth=3840)
Lot 181 |PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW ENGLAND COLLECTION
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER-GILT TEA CADDIES
MARK OF AUGUSTINE COURTAULD, LONDON, 1733
Live Bidding Starts
Price Realised
USD 9,375
More Information
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER-GILT TEA CADDIES
MARK OF AUGUSTINE COURTAULD, LONDON, 1733
Each rectangular, on stepped foot, the front and back finely engraved with a coat-of-arms within baroque cartouche, the sides later engraved with a cypher 'M' under a duke's coronet, the hinged stepped cover engraved with a flowerhead within strap work cartouche, each marked inside cover and under base, one with scratch weight 12=19
4 1/8 in. (10.8 cm.) high
25 oz. 8 dwt. (792 gr.)
The arms are those of Churchill quartering Spencer impaling Trevor for Charles, 3rd Duke of Marlborough (1706-1758) and his wife Elizabeth (d.1761), daughter of Thomas, 2nd Baron Trevor, whom he married in 1732.
MARK OF AUGUSTINE COURTAULD, LONDON, 1733
Each rectangular, on stepped foot, the front and back finely engraved with a coat-of-arms within baroque cartouche, the sides later engraved with a cypher 'M' under a duke's coronet, the hinged stepped cover engraved with a flowerhead within strap work cartouche, each marked inside cover and under base, one with scratch weight 12=19
4 1/8 in. (10.8 cm.) high
25 oz. 8 dwt. (792 gr.)
The arms are those of Churchill quartering Spencer impaling Trevor for Charles, 3rd Duke of Marlborough (1706-1758) and his wife Elizabeth (d.1761), daughter of Thomas, 2nd Baron Trevor, whom he married in 1732.
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER-GILT TEA CADDIES
MARK OF AUGUSTINE COURTAULD, LONDON, 1733
Each rectangular, on stepped foot, the front and back finely engraved with a coat-of-arms within baroque cartouche, the sides later engraved with a cypher 'M' under a duke's coronet, the hinged stepped cover engraved with a flowerhead within strap work cartouche, each marked inside cover and under base, one with scratch weight 12=19
4 1/8 in. (10.8 cm.) high
25 oz. 8 dwt. (792 gr.)
The arms are those of Churchill quartering Spencer impaling Trevor for Charles, 3rd Duke of Marlborough (1706-1758) and his wife Elizabeth (d.1761), daughter of Thomas, 2nd Baron Trevor, whom he married in 1732.
MARK OF AUGUSTINE COURTAULD, LONDON, 1733
Each rectangular, on stepped foot, the front and back finely engraved with a coat-of-arms within baroque cartouche, the sides later engraved with a cypher 'M' under a duke's coronet, the hinged stepped cover engraved with a flowerhead within strap work cartouche, each marked inside cover and under base, one with scratch weight 12=19
4 1/8 in. (10.8 cm.) high
25 oz. 8 dwt. (792 gr.)
The arms are those of Churchill quartering Spencer impaling Trevor for Charles, 3rd Duke of Marlborough (1706-1758) and his wife Elizabeth (d.1761), daughter of Thomas, 2nd Baron Trevor, whom he married in 1732.
Lily, Duchess of Marlborough (1854-1909) who married firstly Louis Carre Hamersley, secondly George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough and finally Lord William de la Poer Beresford.
Her Grace Lily, Duchess of Marlborough, deceased; Christie's, 28 November 1917, lot 80 (£311 to The Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company).
Mrs Marie John Mango (b.c.1874-1955), wife of the Greek shipping broker John Anthony Mango (b.c.1874-1942), 27 Palace Court, Kensington, London, by 1929.
with Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, London, by 1933.
Richard Cushing Paine Sr. (1893-1966), Boston, Massachusetts and then by descent.
Her Grace Lily, Duchess of Marlborough, deceased; Christie's, 28 November 1917, lot 80 (£311 to The Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company).
Mrs Marie John Mango (b.c.1874-1955), wife of the Greek shipping broker John Anthony Mango (b.c.1874-1942), 27 Palace Court, Kensington, London, by 1929.
with Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, London, by 1933.
Richard Cushing Paine Sr. (1893-1966), Boston, Massachusetts and then by descent.
E. Alfred Jones, "Old English Plate in the Collection of Mrs. Mango", The Connoisseur, December 1920, vol. LVIII, no. 232, pp. 219-220, illus. no. XVII.
London, Loan Exhibition of Old English Plate, 25 Park Lane, 1929, no. 45., plate LXV, (lent by Mrs. Mango).