A FINE GEORGE II SILVER MONTEITH BOWL OF AMERICAN INTEREST
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A FINE GEORGE II SILVER MONTEITH BOWL OF AMERICAN INTEREST

MARK OF GEORGE WICKES, LONDON, 1727

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A FINE GEORGE II SILVER MONTEITH BOWL OF AMERICAN INTEREST
MARK OF GEORGE WICKES, LONDON, 1727
Circular, raised on a domed and molded pedestal foot, the body and detachable scalloped rim engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked on base and rim, the latter with Wickes's maker's mark twice and earlier lion passant and leopard's head, the base with scratch weight 72=12
11¾ in. (30 cm.) diameter; 71 oz. (1,988 gr.)

Sotheby's, New York, 28 October 1992, lot 315

專家說明

The arms are those of Contee for Alexander Contee (1691-1740), who emigrated from England and settled in Prince George's County, Maryland. Contee served as Clerk and Burgess for that county. He married Jane (c. 1703-1799), daughter of Colonel Thomas and Barbara (Dent) Brooke of Brookfield, on the upper Patuxent in Prince George's County.
Their daughter, Jane (1728-1812), to whom Alexander left "Buck's Range," a tract in Baltimore County, married John Hanson, President of the First Continental Congress. His statue is found in Statuary Hall, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Contee's will, proved in 1741, includes a silver punch bowl among much other silver plate. The bowl descended within the family for five generations, passing to Douglas H. Thomas in 1876.