ONE WITH MARK OF ID, DUBLIN, CIRCA 1750

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A pair of George II Irish silver sauce-boats
One with mark of ID, Dublin, circa 1750
Each helmet-shaped on three paw feet with lion's mask terminals, with foliage-capped double scroll handle, the body repoussée and chased with a chinoiserie frieze of figures with birds, flowers and scrolls, engraved below the spout with the insignia of the Order of the Bath and C cypher within a rocaille cartouche, each marked under base with Hibernia and harp mark, one with maker's mark, each also faintly engraved with scratchweight
9½in. (24cm.) long
28oz. (893gr.)
The Order and monogram are probably those of Hugh Fortescue, 17th Baron Clinton (2)

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Lot Essay

Hugh Fortescue, 14th Baron Clinton (d. 1751) was one of the original Knights of the Bath invested on 27 May 1725 when the Order was revived. On 5 July 1749 he was created 1st Earl Clinton, and died without issue on 3 May 1751, when the title became extinct. The engraving on these sauceboats would coincide with the date of his elevation to the Earldom in 1749.

Another possibility would be George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley (1702-1770), who was also created one of the original Knights of the Bath on the Order's revival in 1725. He succeeded to the Earldom in 1733 and died in 1770.

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