A PAIR OF FINE VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT FIGURAL WINE COASTERS

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A PAIR OF FINE VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT FIGURAL WINE COASTERS
LONDON, 1837, MAKER'S MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD II

Each of shaped circular form, the cast openwork sides with fully modelled putti frolicking amidst scrolling acanthus and goats and holding aloft a continuous grapevine laden with fruit and connected by scrolls at the rim, one side with a cast cartouche engraved with a coat of arms and surmounted by a cast Baron's coronet, the centers engraved with a border of rocaille enclosing a monogram, motto, and crest, the base of mahogany and set with four silver castors with carved bone wheels, marked on bases and on casters; also struck GARRARDS Panton Street LONDON--6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm.) diameter
(gross weight 115 oz. 10 dwt.) (2)

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The arms are those of Fergusson, as borne by Sir Charles Dalymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, born in 1800, who succeeded on the death of his father, Sir James Fergusson, on April 10, 1838. He was also Lord Kilkerran, which explains the presence of the Baron's coronet on the side of these wine coasters. He had married in 1829 Helen, daughter of the Right Hon. David Boyle. He died in 1849 aged 48.