Live Auction 21907Bayreuth: A Connoisseur's Collection of English Silver and Gold Boxes
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER CAKE BASKETS
Lot 97

A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER CAKE BASKETS

MARK OF THOMAS HEMING, LONDON, 1765 AND 1766

Closed7 July 2023

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER CAKE BASKETS
MARK OF THOMAS HEMING, LONDON, 1765 AND 1766
Each oval, the sides pierced and chased to simulate basketweave, with flaring rim and openwork swing handle, engraved with a coat-of-arms beneath a duke's coronet within drapery mantling, marked underneath and on handles
13 3/4 in. (35 cm.) wide
89 oz. 9 dwt. (2,783 gr.)
The arms are the Royal arms of King Charles II with a baton sinister quartering Scott, for Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch K.G., K.T. (1746-1812).

Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch K.G., K.T. (1746-1812).
Charles W. Engelhard Jr. (1917-1971), of New York, business man and philanthropist and his wife Jane (1917-2004), daughter of Hugo Reiss (1879–1931),
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard; Christie's, New York, 18 October 1995, lot 20.

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HENRY, 3RD DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH
Henry, Duke of Buccleuch, a great patron of literature, was born in 1746, the fourth child of Francis Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, son of Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch. His father died of smallpox at the age of twenty-nine, just one year before the death of his grandfather, the 2nd Duke. Henry succeeded to the dukedom at the age of four. Educated at Eton College, he then travelled abroad with Adam Smith, his tutor from 1764 to 1766. They remained lifelong friends. The Duke married Elizabeth, daughter of George, Duke of Montagu in 1767. Sir Walter Scott wrote of her in his journal, ‘she was a woman of unbounded beneficence to, and even beyond, the extent of her princely fortune. She had a masculine courage, and a great firmness in enduring affliction, which pressed on her with continued and successive blows in her later years.’