CIRCA 1790, PUCE CROWNED CROSSED BATONS AND D MARKS, VARIOUS IMPRESSED LETTERS TO BASES

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Ten Derby bright-yellow-ground armorial coffee-cans and saucers
Circa 1790, puce crowned crossed batons and D marks, various impressed letters to bases
Each decorated with a coat-of-arms with the motto A DEO ET REGE beneath an Earl's coronet, between gilt-line rims, the cans with gilt ear-shaped handles (three cans with cracks and chip to rim, three saucers cracked, the others rubbed, some slight rubbing to gilt rims) (10)

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Lot Essay

The Arms are those of Stanhope with Fleming in pretence for Charles 3rd Earl of Harrington (1753-1829) and his wife Jane (d.1824), daughter and co-heir of Sir John Fleming Bt. (d. 1763) of Brompton Park, whom he married in 1779. He was governor of Windsor Castle and Colonel of the 1st Life Guards.

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