Lot 164
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A GEORGE III PAINTED AND PARCLE-GILT ARMORIAL GRIFFIN
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A GEORGE III PAINTED AND PARCLE-GILT ARMORIAL GRIFFIN

LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III PAINTED AND PARCLE-GILT ARMORIAL GRIFFIN
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Almost certainly from the crest of the Earls Spencer, with a winged griffin emerging from an Earl's coronet, originally a cresting
12¼ in. (31 cm.) high
Provenance
Possibly commissioned by John Spencer, later 1st Earl Spencer (d.1783) for Spencer House, St.James's Place, London or Althorp House, Northamptonshire.
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Lot Essay

Although slightly divergent in detailing to the engraving in Fairbairns Crests, the crest of a Griffin emerging from a Ducal coronet is apparently only used by the Spencer (and Spencer-Churchill) family. This fragment would probably have originally been the cresting of a coat-of-arms, perhaps on a carriage or mirror.

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