AN EARLY VICTORIAN SILVER VEGETABLE DISH AND COVER

MARK OF WILLIAM BATEMAN & DANIEL BALL, LONDON, 1839

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN SILVER VEGETABLE DISH AND COVER
MARK OF WILLIAM BATEMAN & DANIEL BALL, LONDON, 1839
Domed cover with large fruit finial, fluted girdle, dish with shell, scroll, gadroon and foliate border, stamped under base Rundell Bridge et Co., Aurifices Reginae alluding to the fact that the firm of Bateman & Ball were the principal manufacturers for the royal goldsmiths from circa 1834 when the latter ceased activities at their own Soho workshops, and engraved with coat of arms and a bishop's mitre
12 in. diameter (31 cm.)
58 oz. (1798 gm.)

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Lot Essay

The arms are for Bishop Renn Dickson Hampden, Bishop of Hereford (1847-68), born 1793 in Barbados, later Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford (1836) where he argued for the rights of non-Anglicans to attend Oxford & faced a long period of opposition from other churchmen for his perceived unothodoxy.

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