MARK OF PAUL CRESPIN, LONDON, 1746 AND 1747

Details

TWO GEORGE II SILVER-GILT CUPS AND COVERS
MARK OF PAUL CRESPIN, LONDON, 1746 AND 1747
Each vase-shaped and on circular foot, with gadrooned borders and ribbon-tied reeded mid-rib above a border of wheat-ears, with two foliate and beaded scroll handles, the rising domed covers each applied with cast hop and foliage finial, three lacking on one, the bases each engraved with C cypher with Earl's coronet above, each marked under base and on cover bezel
11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high
195 oz. (6,077 gr.)
The cypher is for either Henry, 2nd Earl of Rochester and 4th Earl of Clarendon of the first creation (1672-1753) or his son-in-law Thomas, 1st Earl of Clarendon of the second creation (1709-1786) (2)

Provenance

Commissioned by Henry, 2nd Earl of Rochester and 4th Earl of Clarendon of the first creation (1672-1753) and then by descent to his granddaughter Charlotte (d.1790), who married The Hon. Thomas Villiers (1709-1786), later 1st Earl of Clarendon of the second creation and then by descent or
Commissioned by Thomas, 1st Earl of Clarendon of the second creation (1709-1786) and then by descent.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The design for the unusual wheat-ear ornament, applied to the lower bodies of the cups, is drawn from William Kent's alternative design for Colonel Pelham's Gold Cup (see E. Barr, George Wickes, Royal Goldsmith 1698-1761, London, 1980, p. 96, fig. 14.) The design, engraved by John Vardy in his Some Designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent, had been published in 1744, two years before the date of the earlier of the two cups.

More from Important Silver and Gold

View All