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PROBABLY INDIAN COLONIAL, CIRCA 1840,
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A 19TH CENTURY UNMARKED SILVER COVERED EWER,
PROBABLY INDIAN COLONIAL, CIRCA 1840,
Campana form on pedestal foot, foliate scroll handle, gadroon rim, acanthus-chased, domed cover with acanthus-decorated bud finial, hinged cap to spout, the lower body lobed & chased alternately with flowers & acanthus leaves, either side applied with twin scrolls terminating in leafage, sides chased with foliate cartouches, one vacant, the other engraved with the arms of Vansittart, Baron Bexley, 14 in. high (36 cm.), 65.75 oz.
PROBABLY INDIAN COLONIAL, CIRCA 1840,
Campana form on pedestal foot, foliate scroll handle, gadroon rim, acanthus-chased, domed cover with acanthus-decorated bud finial, hinged cap to spout, the lower body lobed & chased alternately with flowers & acanthus leaves, either side applied with twin scrolls terminating in leafage, sides chased with foliate cartouches, one vacant, the other engraved with the arms of Vansittart, Baron Bexley, 14 in. high (36 cm.), 65.75 oz.
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Further details
The arms are for Nicholas Vansittart, 1st & last Baron Bexley, (1766-1851), 5th. son of Henry Vansittart, governor of Bengal & a director of the Honourable East India Company, who died with all hands on board the "Aurora" on his way to Bengal in 1770.
Nicholas Vansittart was an MP & was Chancellor of the Exchequer under the Earl of Liverpool, 1812-23.
Nicholas Vansittart was an MP & was Chancellor of the Exchequer under the Earl of Liverpool, 1812-23.
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