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A PAIR OF FINE GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT WINE COOLERS
MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1825
Each campana form, on shaped circular base with reeded scroll handles and everted grapevine rim, the base cast with four heraldic tigers, flowers, scrolls and scalework on a matted ground, the body cast and chased overall with grapevines and acanthus leaves on a matted ground, the collar engraved with two coats-of-arms, the liners engraved with four crests, marked under bases and on collars and liners and with scratch weights
11¼in. (28.5cm.) high
(315oz., 9807gr.) (2)
MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1825
Each campana form, on shaped circular base with reeded scroll handles and everted grapevine rim, the base cast with four heraldic tigers, flowers, scrolls and scalework on a matted ground, the body cast and chased overall with grapevines and acanthus leaves on a matted ground, the collar engraved with two coats-of-arms, the liners engraved with four crests, marked under bases and on collars and liners and with scratch weights
11¼in. (28.5cm.) high
(315oz., 9807gr.) (2)
Provenance
The Late Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Christie's, London, May 12, 1922, lot 10.
The arms are those of Walrond impaling Codrington for Joseph Lyons Walrond of Antigua and Dulford House, Devon (1752-1815) and his wife Caroline, daughter of Edward Codrington, second son of Sir William Codrington, 1st Bt., whom he married at St. George's Hanover Square in December 1797. The heraldic tiger is the family crest of Walrond.
The second arms are those of Coutts quartering Bartlett and Burdett with Coutts quartering Burdett in pretence for William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett (d. 1921), younger son of Ellis Bartlett of Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.A. and his wife Angela Georgina. Baroness Burdett-Coutts, daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt. and his wife Sophia, daughter of Thomas Coutts of Westminster, the banker. They were married on 12 February 1881.
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts (1814-1906) was the youngest step-granddaughter of the Duchess of St. Albans, who, following an early career on the stage, married her admirer Thomas Coutts, the banker, in 1815. On his death in 1822 he left her a fortune of /p600,000. She married secondly in 1827 William, 9th Duke of St. Albans. On her death the Duchess left her fortune to Angela Burdett who assumed the additional surname of Coutts by Royal Licence and added the Coutts arms to her own.
She used the fortune to amass a large art collection, to entertain on a lavish scale and to fund numerous philanthropic schemes for which she was awarded a peerage by Queen Victoria in 1871. She resisted numerous suitors until her marriage in 1881 to William Bartlett who then took the name Burdett-Coutts before that of Bartlett and was granted the arms of Burdett and Coutts to be quartered with his own.
The Baroness had known Bartlett from an early age but was 39 years his senior when they married in 1881. He became M.P. for Westminster in 1885 and gave considerable assistance to his wife in her philanthropic activities. Baroness Burdett-Coutts died on December 30, 1906 and her body lay in state for two days, during which nearly 30,000 people, both rich and poor paid their last respects. She was buried in Westminster Abbey on January 5, 1907.
[photo caption:] Angela Burdett-Coutts circa 1858, after William Ross. Private Collection
The arms are those of Walrond impaling Codrington for Joseph Lyons Walrond of Antigua and Dulford House, Devon (1752-1815) and his wife Caroline, daughter of Edward Codrington, second son of Sir William Codrington, 1st Bt., whom he married at St. George's Hanover Square in December 1797. The heraldic tiger is the family crest of Walrond.
The second arms are those of Coutts quartering Bartlett and Burdett with Coutts quartering Burdett in pretence for William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett (d. 1921), younger son of Ellis Bartlett of Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.A. and his wife Angela Georgina. Baroness Burdett-Coutts, daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt. and his wife Sophia, daughter of Thomas Coutts of Westminster, the banker. They were married on 12 February 1881.
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts (1814-1906) was the youngest step-granddaughter of the Duchess of St. Albans, who, following an early career on the stage, married her admirer Thomas Coutts, the banker, in 1815. On his death in 1822 he left her a fortune of /p600,000. She married secondly in 1827 William, 9th Duke of St. Albans. On her death the Duchess left her fortune to Angela Burdett who assumed the additional surname of Coutts by Royal Licence and added the Coutts arms to her own.
She used the fortune to amass a large art collection, to entertain on a lavish scale and to fund numerous philanthropic schemes for which she was awarded a peerage by Queen Victoria in 1871. She resisted numerous suitors until her marriage in 1881 to William Bartlett who then took the name Burdett-Coutts before that of Bartlett and was granted the arms of Burdett and Coutts to be quartered with his own.
The Baroness had known Bartlett from an early age but was 39 years his senior when they married in 1881. He became M.P. for Westminster in 1885 and gave considerable assistance to his wife in her philanthropic activities. Baroness Burdett-Coutts died on December 30, 1906 and her body lay in state for two days, during which nearly 30,000 people, both rich and poor paid their last respects. She was buried in Westminster Abbey on January 5, 1907.
[photo caption:] Angela Burdett-Coutts circa 1858, after William Ross. Private Collection