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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER TWO-HANDLED VASE-SHAPED
WINE COOLERS, COLLARS AND LINERS
by Digby Scott & Benjamin Smith, 1804,
STAMPED RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALLAE LONDINI FECERUNT
Each on a beaded circular base with fluted lower body, applied coat-of-arms to either side with drapery mantling, the rim chased with Bacchic masks and fruiting vines on a matted ground, upright ring handles issuing from masks, detachable cylindrical liners and collars with gadrooned rims,
fully marked on rim feet, collars and liners - 12¼in. high overall (217oz.)
in fitted case (2)
WINE COOLERS, COLLARS AND LINERS
by Digby Scott & Benjamin Smith, 1804,
STAMPED RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALLAE LONDINI FECERUNT
Each on a beaded circular base with fluted lower body, applied coat-of-arms to either side with drapery mantling, the rim chased with Bacchic masks and fruiting vines on a matted ground, upright ring handles issuing from masks, detachable cylindrical liners and collars with gadrooned rims,
fully marked on rim feet, collars and liners - 12¼in. high overall (217oz.)
in fitted case (2)
Further details
The arms are those of Duncombe impailing Legge, for Charles Duncombe (1764-1841), M.P. for Shaftsbury 1790-6, for Aldborough 1796-1806, for Heyterbury 1812-18 and for Newport 1818-26, created Baron Feversham 1826.
He married in 1795 Lady Charlotte Legge, daughter of Second Earl of Dartmouth
A pair of wine coolers of matching pattern by Paul Storr, 1813, was sold from the collection of a California Charitable Institution, Christie's New York, April 11, 1995, lot 237. Also a further two wine coolers from the same service, by Benjamin Smith, 1807, with one collar and the applied armorials with maker's mark of Paul Storr, 1813, was sold from the collection of President and Mrs Ferdinand Marcos by the Republic of the Philippines through the Presidential Commission on Good Government, Chrisite's, London, January 10, 1991, lot 46.
The same design was used by Benjamin Smith for a pair of wine coolers on stands for the Earl of Lonsdale, sold Christie's, London, November 24, 1971