A ROYAL TEAPOT STAND AND TEA CADDY AND COVER

CIRCA 1748

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A ROYAL TEAPOT STAND AND TEA CADDY AND COVER
Circa 1748
Each with a large coat-of-arms for the Prince of Orange supported by gilt lions and surmounted by a coronet, all resting on a gilt pediment with a banner inscribed VIVAT ORANVE, the borders of crossed cornucopiae, gilt coronets and floral festoons
5 1/8in. (13cm.) high and wide (2)

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Made for Prince William IV of Orange (1711-51), Prince of Nassau-Dietz and Orange and Stadholder of Frisia 1711, of Groningen 1718, of Drenthe and Guelders 1722, Zeeland, Holland, Utrecht and Overjissel 1747, and in 1748 made hereditary Stadholder of all the United Provinces of Holland, restoring the hereditary rule to the House of Orange. In 1734 he married Anne of Hanover (1709-59), the Princess Royal

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