A VICTORIAN SILVER EWER
A VICTORIAN SILVER EWER

MARK OF EDWARD AND JOHN BARNARD, LONDON, 1857

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A VICTORIAN SILVER EWER
MARK OF EDWARD AND JOHN BARNARD, LONDON, 1857
Baluster and on shaped foliage and shell cast foot, the body fluted and chased with foliage and with two cartouches, one later engraved with an inscription the other later engraved with a coat-of-arms, with foliage cast shell shaped spout and scroll handle, marked near rim, the base further stamped 'A. B. Savory & Sons Cornhill London'
24 ½ in. (62 cm.) high
136 oz. (4,234 gr.)
The arms are those of Welby quartering Gregory and impaling Wortley quartering Stuart with a crescent for difference for William Earle Welby-Gregory, later 4th Bt. (1829-1898) and his wife Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Stuart-Wortley (1837-1912), daughter of Charles Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (1808-1844) and his wife Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley 1806-1855), who he married in 1863.

The inscription reads 'Presented to William Earle Welby, Esq'r M.P. on his marriage 1863 with the Hon'ble Victoria Alexandrina M. L. S. Stuart Wortley Niece of Charles Cecil John 6th Duke of Rutland by 186 Tenant Occupiers of land on the Estate of his Father Sir Glynne Earle Welby Gregory Bart in Token of the High Esteem in Which he is Held by Them'.
Provenance
William Earle Welby-Gregory, later 4th Bt. (1829-1898) on his marriage to Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Stuart-Wortley (1837-1912), daughter of Charles Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (1808-1844) and his wife Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley 1806-1855) and then by descent.

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