A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER

MARK OF RICHARD COOKE, LONDON, 1804, RETAILED BY MAKEPEACE

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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER
MARK OF RICHARD COOKE, LONDON, 1804, RETAILED BY MAKEPEACE
On spreading circular foot, cast and chased with palm leaves, with leaf-capped handles, applied beneath the rim with a chariot-racing scene, and a mare and a foal, the detachable waisted cover with horse finial, later-engraved with presentation inscription and cypher below earl's coronet, marked on foot, cover bezel and finial, the cover bezel engraved 'Makepeace, Fecit'
18.1/4 in. (46.4 cm.) high
134 oz. 2 dwt. (4,172 gr.)
The inscription reads, 'PRESENTED BY FRANCES ANNE VANE MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY TO FRANCIS ADOLPHUS VANE TEMPEST HER GRANDSON AND GODSON MAY 1863'

Provenance

Probably Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, 2nd Bt. (1771–1813) and by descent to his daughter Frances Anne , Marchioness of Londonderry (1800-65), by whom given to her grandson Adolphus Vane-Tempest (1863-1932), and by descent.

Literature

Inventory of Londonderry Plate, Garrard & Co., 1923, Silver Gilt Cups etc.’, p. 7.
Londonderry House inventory, 1939, p. 177, ‘The Vane Cup. 1804…’.
Wynyard Park inventory of silver and plate, 1949, p. 2, with the date on the inscription written erroneously as ‘May 1865’.
Wynyard Park, inventory, 1956, p. 117.

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Lot Essay

Sir Henry Vane-Tempest was a keen racehorse owner and it was he who commissioned the monumental oil painting of his winning racehorse ‘Hambletonian rubbing down’ in 1800 from George Stubbs (d. 1806). The famous painting of the near undefeated thoroughbred hung for most of its existence in the breakfast room at Wynyard Park, County Durham, and is now displayed at Mount Stewart, Northern Ireland.

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