A PAIR OF FINE GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT WINE COOLERS

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A PAIR OF FINE GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT WINE COOLERS
maker's mark of Benjamin Smith, London, 1826

Vase-shaped and on spreading shaped-circular base, with scroll handles and plain detachable liners, cast and chased overall with scrolls, foliage, roses and latticework enclosing flower heads and with everted simulated wave rims, applied twice with a coat-of-arms, marked under bases and on liners - 10¾in. (27.5cm.) high
302ozs. (9,404grs.)

The arms are those of de Salis impaling Tulloch (2)
Provenance
Musa Bence Liggett
American Art Association Anderson Gallerie, New York, 22 April 1938, lot 294
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, 15 December 1983, lot 96

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