A GEORGE I SILVER BEER-JUG
拍品 363 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

A GEORGE I SILVER BEER-JUG

MARK OF WILLIAM FAWDERY, LONDON, 1720, BRITANNIA STANDARD

已結束2013年6月4日

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A GEORGE I SILVER BEER-JUG
MARK OF WILLIAM FAWDERY, LONDON, 1720, BRITANNIA STANDARD
Baluster and on spreading stepped foot, with scroll handle and beak-form spout, the hinged cover with baluster finial and scroll thumbpiece, engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked under foot and inside cover, the foot further engraved with a scratchweight '70=0'
13 in. (33 cm.) high
69 oz. 6 dwt. (2,156 gr.)
The arms are those of Peters as granted to George Peters of London in 1748. It is probable that the arms were being used unofficially before they were granted to George Peters by the College of Arms in 1748, possibly when he was appointed an alderman.

Anonymous sale; Dreweatts, Newbury, 12 September 2012, lot 114.

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George Peters (d.1787) was a merchant in the Russia Company in which he served as a director from 1766. A prominent figure in the city he was appointed Governor of the Bank of England in 1785 a post he filled for two years. He lived at 32 Old Bethlehem in the City and at Hendon Place, Middlesex.