MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1822

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT WINE-COOLERS, COLLARS AND LINERS
MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1822
Each campana-shaped and with shell and foliage-heightened gadrooned border, on circular base cast with leaves, shells and rocaille, the sides applied with fruiting grapevines, with reeded ribbon-tied handles, engraved on each side with a coat-of-arms, the liners and collars each engraved with two crests, each marked near handle, on liner and collar, the bases further engraved with scratchweights 'No 1 135oz 5' and 'No2 135oz 10' and stamped 'Garrard's Panton Street London'
11 in. (28 cm.) high
270 oz. 12 dwt. (8,415 gr.)
The arms are those of Richard Benyon de Beauvoir (d.1834) of Englefield House and his wife Elizabeth (d.1822), daughter of Sir Francis Sykes of Basildon Park, whom he married in 1797. (2)

Provenance

Richard Benyon de Beauvoir (1769-1854) of Englefield House and his wife Elizabeth (d.1822) and then by descent to his nephew
Richard Fellowes (1811-1897) later Benyon, and then by descent to his nephew
James Herbert Fellows (1849-1935), later Benyon and then by descent to his son
Henry Arthur Benyon (1884-1959), later created a baronet in 1958.
H. A. Benyon; Sotheby's, London, 24 April 1958, lot 129 (part).

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Lot Essay

These wine coolers were commissioned by Richard Benyon de Beauvoir for the new dining room at his country house Englefield Park. He had inherited the house from his father in 1796. He was also heir to his grandfather's East India fortune and the estates of his de Beauvoir cousin and grandmother. He added the de Beauvoir name to that of Benyon in 1822, the year he ordered his magnificent silver-gilt dinner service from Garrard. The newly enlarged Englefield Park, the work of Thomas Hooper (1775-1856), architect of the Prince Regent's conservatory, modelled on Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster and the neo-Norman Penrhyn Castle, Bangor.

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