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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT SAUCE TUREEN AND COVER
maker's mark of Digby Scott and Benjamin Smith, London, 1803
Of circular form and on spreading foot, the reeded handles each terminating in a classical bust and applied with a coat-of-arms on a shaped cartouche, the slightly domed cover with bud finial, the tureen cast and applied with bands of acanthus leaves and leaf-capped Vitruvian scrolls, the cover applied with a band of trailing vines, marked on foot, cover and finial, the base stamped 'RUNDELL BRIDGE & RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS LONDINI FECERUNT' - 6in. (15cm.) high
33ozs. (1,051grs.)
The arms are those of Vane quartering others with McDonald quartering others in pretence surrmounted by an Earl's coronet for Sir Henry Vane Tempest, 2nd Bt., (1771-1813) and his wife Anne Catherine (d.1834), Countess of Antrim in her own right, daughter of Randall-William McDonald, 6th Earl of Antrim, whom he married in 1799
maker's mark of Digby Scott and Benjamin Smith, London, 1803
Of circular form and on spreading foot, the reeded handles each terminating in a classical bust and applied with a coat-of-arms on a shaped cartouche, the slightly domed cover with bud finial, the tureen cast and applied with bands of acanthus leaves and leaf-capped Vitruvian scrolls, the cover applied with a band of trailing vines, marked on foot, cover and finial, the base stamped 'RUNDELL BRIDGE & RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS LONDINI FECERUNT' - 6in. (15cm.) high
33ozs. (1,051grs.)
The arms are those of Vane quartering others with McDonald quartering others in pretence surrmounted by an Earl's coronet for Sir Henry Vane Tempest, 2nd Bt., (1771-1813) and his wife Anne Catherine (d.1834), Countess of Antrim in her own right, daughter of Randall-William McDonald, 6th Earl of Antrim, whom he married in 1799