MARK OF GEORGE WICKES, LONDON, 1743

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A George II silver-gilt cup and cover
Mark of George Wickes, London, 1743
Vase-shaped on circular foot, with two vine-wrapped double scroll handles with bacchante mask terminals, the rising domed cover with basket and vine finial, the body and cover applied and chased overall with strapwork, floral sprigs, and vines, the cover also with a panel of shells, with acanthus, shell, scroll and scale borders on a partly textured ground, the body later engraved twice with a coat-of-arms, marked under base, the cover unmarked
13in. (33cm.) high
84oz. (2,633gr.)
The arms are those of Drummond impaling Murray and others for James Drummond, later 8th Viscount Strathallan (1767-1851) and his wife Lady Amelia Sophia (1780-1849), daughter of John, 4th Duke of Athol (1755-1830), whom he married in 1809.

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Lot Essay

The Strathallen titles and estates had been forfeited after the 5th Viscount had taken part in the 1745/6 uprising. The titles and lands were restored to James Drummond by Act of Parliament in 1824. Drummond was Chief of the British settlement in Canton and was MP for Perth from 1812-1824. Following the restoration of his titles he became a Scottish Representative peer from 1824 until his death in 1851.

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