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A GEORGE III SILVER TEA KETTLE, STAND AND LAMP
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN PAGE, LONDON, 1817
THE STAND ON THREE LEAF-CAPPED LION'S PAW FEET AND WITH PLAIN DETACHABLE LAMP AND COVER, THE KETTLE, BIRD'S HEAD SPOUT, DETACHABLE DOMED COVER WITH FLOWER FINIAL AND PARTLY WICKER COVERED SWING HANDLE, THE STAND, KETTLE AND COVER CHASED OVERALL WITH CHERUBS, MASKS, SHELLS, SCROLLS AND FOLIAGE, ENGRAVED WITH A COAT-OF-ARMS, ROYAL CRESTS WITHIN GARTER MOTTOES AND THE INITIALS EAF'S, MARKED ON TEA KETTLE, COVER, STAND, LAMP AND LAMP COVER, THE FINIAL UNMARKED - 12IN. (30.5CM.) HIGH
GROSS 69OZS. (2,156GRS.)
THE ARMS ARE THOSE ROYAL ARMS IMPALING MECKLENBURG QUARTERING WENDEN, SCHWERIN, RATZEBURG, COUNTY OF SCHWERIN AND THE LORDSHIP OF ROSTOCK WITH STARGARD IN PRETENCE FOR ERNST AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF CUMBERLAND AND KING OF HANOVER (1771-1851) AND HIS WIFE FRIEDERIKE CAROLINE SOPHIE ALEXANDRINE (1778-1841), FIFTH DAUGHTER OF KARL II, DUKE OF MECKLENBURG AND STRELIZ (1794-1816), WHOM HE MARRIED IN 1815. ERNST AUGUSTUS WAS THE FIFTH SON OF KING GEORGE III AND BROTHER OF KING GEORGE IV AND KING WILLLAM IV. ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM IV, HIS NIECE, VICTORIA SUCCEEDED TO THE BRITISH THRONE, HOWEVER, HER UNCLE ERNST AUGUSTUS BECAME KING OF HANOVER AS SILAC LAW PREVENTED A FEMALE FROM TAKING THE THRONE OF HANOVER (2)
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN PAGE, LONDON, 1817
THE STAND ON THREE LEAF-CAPPED LION'S PAW FEET AND WITH PLAIN DETACHABLE LAMP AND COVER, THE KETTLE, BIRD'S HEAD SPOUT, DETACHABLE DOMED COVER WITH FLOWER FINIAL AND PARTLY WICKER COVERED SWING HANDLE, THE STAND, KETTLE AND COVER CHASED OVERALL WITH CHERUBS, MASKS, SHELLS, SCROLLS AND FOLIAGE, ENGRAVED WITH A COAT-OF-ARMS, ROYAL CRESTS WITHIN GARTER MOTTOES AND THE INITIALS EAF'S, MARKED ON TEA KETTLE, COVER, STAND, LAMP AND LAMP COVER, THE FINIAL UNMARKED - 12IN. (30.5CM.) HIGH
GROSS 69OZS. (2,156GRS.)
THE ARMS ARE THOSE ROYAL ARMS IMPALING MECKLENBURG QUARTERING WENDEN, SCHWERIN, RATZEBURG, COUNTY OF SCHWERIN AND THE LORDSHIP OF ROSTOCK WITH STARGARD IN PRETENCE FOR ERNST AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF CUMBERLAND AND KING OF HANOVER (1771-1851) AND HIS WIFE FRIEDERIKE CAROLINE SOPHIE ALEXANDRINE (1778-1841), FIFTH DAUGHTER OF KARL II, DUKE OF MECKLENBURG AND STRELIZ (1794-1816), WHOM HE MARRIED IN 1815. ERNST AUGUSTUS WAS THE FIFTH SON OF KING GEORGE III AND BROTHER OF KING GEORGE IV AND KING WILLLAM IV. ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM IV, HIS NIECE, VICTORIA SUCCEEDED TO THE BRITISH THRONE, HOWEVER, HER UNCLE ERNST AUGUSTUS BECAME KING OF HANOVER AS SILAC LAW PREVENTED A FEMALE FROM TAKING THE THRONE OF HANOVER (2)