A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER BOWLS

MARK OF GEORGE WICKES, LONDON, 1732

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER BOWLS
MARK OF GEORGE WICKES, LONDON, 1732
Each circular with fluted sides and gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms within Baroque mantling, each marked under base, with scratch weights 13-12 and 10-1-12; 13-8 and 10-0-12
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) diameter, one is 1/8 (0.3 cm.) higher; 26 oz. (818 gr.) (2)

Provenance

The Executors of The Right Honourable the 3rd Viscount Astor, removed from Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, sold Christie's, London, 21 June 1967, lot 116
M. Luben Basmadjieff, sold Christie's, Geneva, 14 November 1972, lot 271
Christie's, London, 12 June 2006, lot 134
With Alastair Dickenson, London

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of Fowle impaling Turner, for John Fowle, Esq., of Brome, Norfolk and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Charles Turner, 1st Bt., of Warham, Norfolk (d. 1738). John Fowle was one of his Majesty's Commissioners of Excise, and his father-in-law was Commissioner of Trade and Lord of the Admiralty.

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