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MARK OF GEORGE WICKES, LONDON, 1732
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A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER BOWLS
MARK OF GEORGE WICKES, LONDON, 1732
Each fluted circular and on a stepped foot, with a gadrooned rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms within mantling, marked underneath, each further engraved with two scratchweights '10=1=12' and '13-12' on the first and '10=0=12' and '13-0' on the second
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) diam.
26 oz. (820 gr.)
The arms are those of Fowle impaling Turner, for John Fowle, Esq., of Brome, co. Norfolk and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Charles Turner, 1st Bt., of Warham, co. Norfolk (d. 1738). John Fowle was one of his Majesties' Commissioners of Excise and it is interesting to note that his father-in-law was Commissioner of Trade and Lord of the Admiralty. (2)
MARK OF GEORGE WICKES, LONDON, 1732
Each fluted circular and on a stepped foot, with a gadrooned rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms within mantling, marked underneath, each further engraved with two scratchweights '10=1=12' and '13-12' on the first and '10=0=12' and '13-0' on the second
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) diam.
26 oz. (820 gr.)
The arms are those of Fowle impaling Turner, for John Fowle, Esq., of Brome, co. Norfolk and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Charles Turner, 1st Bt., of Warham, co. Norfolk (d. 1738). John Fowle was one of his Majesties' Commissioners of Excise and it is interesting to note that his father-in-law was Commissioner of Trade and Lord of the Admiralty. (2)
Provenance
The Executors of The Right Honourable the 3rd Viscount Astor, removed from Cliveden, Buckinghamshire; Christie's London, 21 June 1967, lot 116
M. Luben Basmadjieff; Christie's Geneva, 14 November 1972, lot 271
M. Luben Basmadjieff; Christie's Geneva, 14 November 1972, lot 271
Literature
E. Barr, George Wickes, Royal Goldsmith 1698-1761, London, 1980, p. 120, pl. 76a and 76b
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.