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MARK OF WILLIAM ELEY, WILLIAM FEARN AND WILLIAM CHAWNER, LONDON, 1812
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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DESSERT-SERVICE
MARK OF WILLIAM ELEY, WILLIAM FEARN AND WILLIAM CHAWNER, LONDON, 1812
King's pattern, double shell and laurel, each piece engraved with a crest within a garter, comprising:
Eighteen dessert-spoons
Eighteen dessert-forks
Eighteen fruit-forks
Six service spoons
Four ice-cream spades
A pair of grape-scissors, 1814
All contained in a fitted inlaid mahogany canteen
124 oz. (3,862 gr.)
The crest is that of Coote, for Sir Charles Henry, 9th Bt. (b.1794) who succeeded his kinsman, the last Earl of Mountrath, in the Baronetcy. He married, in 1814, Caroline, daughter of John Whaley Abbey of co. Wicklow. (65)
MARK OF WILLIAM ELEY, WILLIAM FEARN AND WILLIAM CHAWNER, LONDON, 1812
King's pattern, double shell and laurel, each piece engraved with a crest within a garter, comprising:
Eighteen dessert-spoons
Eighteen dessert-forks
Eighteen fruit-forks
Six service spoons
Four ice-cream spades
A pair of grape-scissors, 1814
All contained in a fitted inlaid mahogany canteen
124 oz. (3,862 gr.)
The crest is that of Coote, for Sir Charles Henry, 9th Bt. (b.1794) who succeeded his kinsman, the last Earl of Mountrath, in the Baronetcy. He married, in 1814, Caroline, daughter of John Whaley Abbey of co. Wicklow. (65)
Provenance
Sir Charles Henry Coote, 9th Bt., and then by descent to
Sir Algernon Charles Plumptre Coote, 12th Bt.; Christie's London, 10 December 1896, probably lot 67 (part).
Sir Algernon Charles Plumptre Coote, 12th Bt.; Christie's London, 10 December 1896, probably lot 67 (part).
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium