A GEORGE IV SILVER TEA URN

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A GEORGE IV SILVER TEA URN
MAKER'S MARK OF EDWARD BARTON, LONDON, 1824

Vase-shaped, on shaped square pedestal on four acanthus scroll supports, chased with acanthus scrolls and flowerheads with birds at intervals, the rim applied with acanthus, with double scroll leaf-clad handles and foliate ivory-handled spout, with removable pig compartment and domed cover similarly chased and surmounted by a leaf-clad foliate finial, engraved with a coat-of-arms within an asymmetrical rocaille cartouche, fully marked--15½in.(39.5cm.) high
(gross weight 178oz.10dwt., 5566gr.)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Duncombe quarterly with those of Pauncefort and impaling those of Foules, as borne by Phillip Duncombe Pauncefort born in 1784, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1824, who assumed, by license dated July 29, 1805, the additional surname of Duncombe and who married, as his first wife in 1813, Lady Alicia Lambart, daughter of the 7th Earl of Cavan, who died in 1818. He married, second, Sophia, youngest daughter of Sir William Foulis, Bt. He died in 1849.