A FINE PAIR OF REGENCY SILVER WINE COOLERS

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1812

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A FINE PAIR OF REGENCY SILVER WINE COOLERS
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1812
Each urn-shaped, on four lion's-paw feet, each on a low canted rectangular platform, the feet with acanthus terminals, the partly-fluted body with molded mid-rib and gadrooned rim, with two reeded foliage and shell-capped handles with lion's-mask terminals, the detachable waisted collar with gadrooned, foliage and shell border and plain cylindrical liner, engraved twice on the body with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet, and on the collar twice and liner once with a crest and coronet, each marked on body, collar and liner
9¾ in. (24.7 cm.) high; 233 oz. 10 dwt. (4,263 gr.) (2)

Provenance

Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon (1777-1839)
James Du Pre Alexander, 3rd Earl of Caledon (1812-1855)
James Alexander, 4th Earl of Caledon (1846-1898)
Eric J.D. Alexander, 5th Earl of Caledon (1885-1969)
Denis James Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon (1920-1980)
Sotheby's, New York, 5 April 2006, lot 106
S.J. Shrubsole, New York

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of Alexander impaling Yorke, for Du Pre, 2nd Earl of Caledon K.P. (1777-1839) and his wife Catherine (d.1863), daughter of Philip, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (1757-1834), whom he married in 1811. Lord Caledon was one of the Irish Representative Peers and was both His Majesty's Lieutenant in Co. Tyrone and Colonel of the Tyrone Militia. He was appointed the first Governor of the Cape of Good Hope when it was ceded to Britain in 1806.

A matching pair of wine coolers from the same service was sold by The Republic of the Philippines Presidential Commission on Good Government, Christie's, New York, 10 January 1991, lot 49.

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