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A FINE GEORGE III SILVER TRAY
maker's mark of Benjamin and James Smith, one overstruck with that of John Crouch, London, 1810
Oval and on four Bacchanalian mask, scroll and goat's hoof feet, with two leopard's masks, fruit and foliage handles terminating in a ram's mask, the border cast and applied with a broad band of trailing vines and ribbon-tied berried foliage, the ground later engraved with a coat-of-arms within scroll and foliage cartouche, marked on rim and rim and reverse - 29½in. (75cm.) long
247ozs. (7,708grs.)
The arms are those of Coutts quartering Burdett, Bartlett and Coutts, with Coutts quartering Burdett in pretence for The Rt. Hon. William Lehman Ash Burdett-Coutts-Bartlett-Coutts M.P., P.C. (d.1921) and his wife Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906) whom he married in 1881. Baroness Burdett Coutts was the youngest of five step-granddaughters of the Duchess of St. Albans. On the latter's death in 1837 she left Angela her vast property and fortune. On succession to the fortune, Miss Burdett assumed the additional surname of Coutts by Royal Licence and added the Coutts arms to those of the Budett family.
From the outset Miss Burdett-Coutts, as "the richest heiress in all England" (Raikes Journal,IV, p.345) enjoyed a fame throughout the country second only to Queen Victoria. Although suitors were numerous, including the Duke of Wellington and Prince Louis Napoleon, she declined all advances until later on in life when she married Mr William Ashmead-Bartlett in 1881. Until then her life had been exclusively devoted to social entertainment and philanthropy although she also spent a large proportion of her income on amassing a great art collection. In 1871, as a result of her many charitable donations and commitment she was awarded a peerage by Queen Victoria. At that time it was the only instance of a woman being raised to the peerage in recognition of her personal work and public achievenent. She was also conferred with the honorary freedom of the cities of London and Edinburgh.
On 30th of December, 1906, she died, her body lying in state for two days, during which nearly 30,000 people, both rich and poor paid their last respects. She was buried in Westminster Abbey on 5th January 1907.
maker's mark of Benjamin and James Smith, one overstruck with that of John Crouch, London, 1810
Oval and on four Bacchanalian mask, scroll and goat's hoof feet, with two leopard's masks, fruit and foliage handles terminating in a ram's mask, the border cast and applied with a broad band of trailing vines and ribbon-tied berried foliage, the ground later engraved with a coat-of-arms within scroll and foliage cartouche, marked on rim and rim and reverse - 29½in. (75cm.) long
247ozs. (7,708grs.)
The arms are those of Coutts quartering Burdett, Bartlett and Coutts, with Coutts quartering Burdett in pretence for The Rt. Hon. William Lehman Ash Burdett-Coutts-Bartlett-Coutts M.P., P.C. (d.1921) and his wife Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906) whom he married in 1881. Baroness Burdett Coutts was the youngest of five step-granddaughters of the Duchess of St. Albans. On the latter's death in 1837 she left Angela her vast property and fortune. On succession to the fortune, Miss Burdett assumed the additional surname of Coutts by Royal Licence and added the Coutts arms to those of the Budett family.
From the outset Miss Burdett-Coutts, as "the richest heiress in all England" (Raikes Journal,IV, p.345) enjoyed a fame throughout the country second only to Queen Victoria. Although suitors were numerous, including the Duke of Wellington and Prince Louis Napoleon, she declined all advances until later on in life when she married Mr William Ashmead-Bartlett in 1881. Until then her life had been exclusively devoted to social entertainment and philanthropy although she also spent a large proportion of her income on amassing a great art collection. In 1871, as a result of her many charitable donations and commitment she was awarded a peerage by Queen Victoria. At that time it was the only instance of a woman being raised to the peerage in recognition of her personal work and public achievenent. She was also conferred with the honorary freedom of the cities of London and Edinburgh.
On 30th of December, 1906, she died, her body lying in state for two days, during which nearly 30,000 people, both rich and poor paid their last respects. She was buried in Westminster Abbey on 5th January 1907.