A SET OF THREE GEORGE III SILVER COVERED SUGAR VASES
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A SET OF THREE GEORGE III SILVER COVERED SUGAR VASES

MARK OF DANIEL SMITH AND ROBERT SHARP, LONDON, 1773

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A SET OF THREE GEORGE III SILVER COVERED SUGAR VASES
MARK OF DANIEL SMITH AND ROBERT SHARP, LONDON, 1773
With bead borders and acanthus scroll side handles, the sides applied with swags of bellflowers hung from ribbon-tied paterae and with stiff leaves radiating from the lower body, on square pedestal bases cast with guilloche and paterae decoration, the covers with an acorn finial atop a chased acanthus leaf calyx, each engraved to one side with a neo-classical armorial cartouche
the largest 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) high
47 oz. (1457 gr.)
The arms are those of Lee (or Leigh) with a molet for a third son and Long quartering Atkinson in pretence. (3)
Provenance
The Massey-Mainwaring Collection; Christie's London, 13 March 1907, Lot 310 (to Colonel Tipping)
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