MARK OF EDWARD, EDWARD JUNIOR, JOHN AND WILLIAM BARNARD, LONDON, 1829

細節

A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT DOUBLE WINE COASTER WAGONS
MARK OF EDWARD, EDWARD JUNIOR, JOHN AND WILLIAM BARNARD, LONDON, 1829
Each on shaped oblong base and four shell and scroll feet, cast with a coat-of-arms on either side, each flanked by matted scrolling foliage and vines, applied at either end with a figural crest in the form of a demi-lion holding a saw and a demi-griffin, the openwork coasters with borders of cherubs playing among matted foliage below everted rims of grape-laden vines, the center engraved with a coat-of-arms, each marked on coaster base and field, body of wagon, and wheel wells, stamped D. Ellis London Fecit
The wagons 20¼in. (50.5cm.) long, the coasters 7¼in. (18.5cm.) diameter (2)

來源

Collection of Sir William Butlin, MBE, sold Christie's, July 17, 1968, lot 34
Sotheby's, London, May 3, 1984, lot 143

出版

Vanessa Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, 1600-1940, 1986, no. 1373
The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, Christie's, London, 1989, no. 163, p. 211

展覽

"The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection," Christie's, London, 1989, no. 163

拍品專文

The arms are those of Drax quartering Erle, Sawbridge and others with Drax in pretense, for John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge (1800-87) who married on 1 May 1827, Jane Francis Erle-Drax. She was heiress to her brother, Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor, of Charborough Park, Wareham, Dorset, and Ellerton Abbey, Yorkshire, who died on 13 August 1828. J.S.W. Sawbridge assumed the additional surname and arms of Erle-Drax. He was M.P. for Wareham, 1841-57, 1859-65, and 1868-80.

The retail jeweler and silversmith, David Ellis, is recorded in Oxford Street, London. The Barnard & Sons Day Book records that these wagons were sold to Ellis for £187-19s-10d.