Lot 199
199
A QUEEN ANNE SILVER CUP AND COVER

MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME, LONDON, 1712

Details
A QUEEN ANNE SILVER CUP AND COVER
MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME, LONDON, 1712
Of large size; vase form on boldly gadrooned circular foot, the lower body applied with strapwork with Regence decoration and with an applied mid-band, with two large scroll handles, the cover applied with similar strapwork and with a gadrooned knop finial, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms within baroque mantling, the cover engraved with a crest, marked on cover and cover bezel, also engraved No. 1 on base
16¼ in. (41.2 cm.) high; 170 oz. 10 dwt. (5,308 gr.) (2)
Provenance
The Rt. Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam, D.F.C., sold Christie's, London, 9 June 1948, lot 139
Mrs. Fay Plohn, sold Sotheby's, London, 16 July 1970, lot 40
Sotheby's, New York, 24 October 1998, lot 1216
With Alastair Dickenson, London
Literature
Vanessa Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, 1600-1940, 1986, illus. p. 22, no. 641
Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition of Old Silver, 1929, no. 450
Exhibited
Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition, Seaford House, 1929, no. 450

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of Watson impaling Proby for Thomas Watson Wentworth (1665-1723), third son of Edward, 2nd Duke of Rockingham and his wife Alice, only daughter of Sir Thomas Proby, baronet, of Elton, Huntingdon. In 1695, Thomas Watson succeeded to the estates of his uncle, William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, and assumed the additional surname of Wentworth. He served as M.P. for Higham Ferrars and Malton; his grandson, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, served two terms as Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Caption: Design for the Monument to Thomas Watson Wentworth in York Minster, by William Kent, engraved by George Vertue, 1736. (c) The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

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