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A QUEEN ANNE CUP AND COVER
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A QUEEN ANNE CUP AND COVER
THE CUP WITH MAKER'S MARK OF EDMUND PIERCE, THE COVER WITH MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN RAND, LONDON, 1705, BRITANNIA STANDARD
Partly-fluted vase-shaped and on spreading circular foot, with moulded mid-rib stamped above with foliage, with scroll handles and detachable partly-fluted domed cover with fluted baluster finial, later engraved with a lozenge-of-arms, marked on rim and cover
9in. (23cm.) high
33ozs. (1051grs.)
The arms are those of Monnoux impaling Harvey for Dorothy, widow of Sir Philip Monnoux, 3rd Bt., (d.1707). Dorothy was daughter of William Harvey Esq., of Chigwell, Co. Essex. The baronetcy became extinct in 1812 on the death of Sir Philip Monnoux, 7th Bt.
THE CUP WITH MAKER'S MARK OF EDMUND PIERCE, THE COVER WITH MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN RAND, LONDON, 1705, BRITANNIA STANDARD
Partly-fluted vase-shaped and on spreading circular foot, with moulded mid-rib stamped above with foliage, with scroll handles and detachable partly-fluted domed cover with fluted baluster finial, later engraved with a lozenge-of-arms, marked on rim and cover
9in. (23cm.) high
33ozs. (1051grs.)
The arms are those of Monnoux impaling Harvey for Dorothy, widow of Sir Philip Monnoux, 3rd Bt., (d.1707). Dorothy was daughter of William Harvey Esq., of Chigwell, Co. Essex. The baronetcy became extinct in 1812 on the death of Sir Philip Monnoux, 7th Bt.
Provenance
Purchased in 1949 to record the first prizes won in open Match Rifle Competitions at the Bisley Meetings of the National Rifle Association by The Hon. John Freemantle, later The 4th Baron Cottesloe