A LARGE QUEEN ANNE SILVER MUG
THE PROPERTY OF A DECEASED GENTLEMAN
A LARGE QUEEN ANNE SILVER MUG

MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME, LONDON, 1712

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A LARGE QUEEN ANNE SILVER MUG
MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME, LONDON, 1712
Slightly tapering cylindrical with stepped foot, with leaf-capped scroll handle, engraved with a coat-of-arms within foliage cartouche, marked near handle, engraved underneath with scratchweight '19-4'
5¼ in. (13.2 cm.) high
18 oz. 19 dwt. (589 gr.)
The arms are those of Grenville impaling Temple almost certainly for Richard Grenville (1646-1719) of Wooton, co. Buckingham and his wife Eleanor (d. 1720), daughter of Sir Peter Temple of Stanton Barry, whom he married c. 1669.
Provenance
Almost certainly George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, The Contents of Stowe House; Christie's, London, 7 September 1848, lot 568 (£5 16s 10d to Zimmerman).
with Koopman Rare Art, June 1997.
Exhibited
London, Seaford House, Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition of Old Silver, 1929, no. 444.

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