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Lot Essay
These tazze are two of four copies of a set of four George I silver-gilt salvers by David Willaume I of 1716, which were purchased from Garrard & Co by Lord Rosebery on 24 December 1878 for £100. Fifteen years later Lord Rosebery asked Garrards to copy the originals and to engrave his own arms on them. The ledgers at Garrard & Co. for 1893 record
'4 hexagon silver spirit dishes with fancy gadron borders on colet feet £84.
Gilding and burnishing the above £32.
Engraving arms, supporters on pieces £18.'
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, succeeded his grandfather as earl at the age of 21. A Liberal albeit with imperialist views often at odds with prime minister Gladstone, he held the posts of undersecretary for home affairs, lord privy seal, and foreign secretary. Upon Gladstone's retirement in 1894, Queen Victoria personally called on Rosebery to become prime minister, which however occasioned a party crisis resulting in his resignation just one year later to lead a more imperialist division of the Liberal Party. He retired from politics in 1905. His historical monographs include William Pitt (1891) and Napoleon: The Last Phase (1900). He died in 1929.
'4 hexagon silver spirit dishes with fancy gadron borders on colet feet £84.
Gilding and burnishing the above £32.
Engraving arms, supporters on pieces £18.'
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, succeeded his grandfather as earl at the age of 21. A Liberal albeit with imperialist views often at odds with prime minister Gladstone, he held the posts of undersecretary for home affairs, lord privy seal, and foreign secretary. Upon Gladstone's retirement in 1894, Queen Victoria personally called on Rosebery to become prime minister, which however occasioned a party crisis resulting in his resignation just one year later to lead a more imperialist division of the Liberal Party. He retired from politics in 1905. His historical monographs include William Pitt (1891) and Napoleon: The Last Phase (1900). He died in 1929.