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拍品 14
A GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT CLARET JUG AND COVER
MARK OF JOHN BRIDGE, LONDON, 1826
已结束2023年7月7日
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WILLIAM CAVENDISH, 6TH DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE
Known as 'The Bachelor Duke', the 6th Duke was a leading figure of Regency and Victorian society, and a close friend to King George IV and Tsar Nicholas I. He was a renowned collector of classical and contemporary sculpture and had a superb book collection. He carried out extensive renovations at his estates of Chatsworth and Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire and Lismore Castle in Ireland. Under the Duke's patronage, his gardener and estate manager Joseph Paxton created a magnificent conservatory at Chatsworth which was the model for the Paxton's design of the Crystal Palace in 1851. A pair of virtually identical silver claret jugs by Bridge, dated 1827, remain at Chatsworth.
William, 6th Duke of Devonshire, by Richard Dighton (1795-1880). © National Portrait Gallery, London