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拍品专文
The arms are those of Robinson quartering Weddell, for Thomas Philip, 3rd Baron Grantham, son of Thomas, 2nd Baron and Mary Jemima suo jure Marchioness Grey. In 1833, he succeeded his maternal aunt as Earl De Grey of Wrest. He married in 1805 Henrietta Frances Cole (1784-1848), fifth daughter of William Willoughby, 1st Earl of Enniskillen.
Lord Grantham served in the Yorkshire Hussar Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry and was appointed an Aide-de-Camp to both William IV and Queen Victoria. He also served as First Lord of the Admiralty, 1834-1835, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1841-1844. He was a great patron of the arts, serving as President of the Institution of British Architects and it was said "...his ample fortune affords him the means of extending to the arts, to that of painting in particular, in which his Lordship himself excels, that patronage to which his well-cultivated taste and liberal disposition alike prompt him" (National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the 19th Century, 1830, vol. 1, p. 4).
Lord Grantham commissioned this pair of salvers to match a superb group of baroque period plate belonging to the De Grey family. The magnificent engraved arms copy those of a William III silver-gilt basin and pair of ewers, by Benjamin Pyne, 1699, which also sold from the De Grey Silver Settlement, Christie's, London, March 24, 1982, lot 95. The earlier engraving is attributed to the "Master of George Vertue" engraver, whose body of work included several commissions for King William and Queen Mary (see Charles Oman, English Engraved Silver, 1978, pp. 60-64).
Lord Grantham served in the Yorkshire Hussar Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry and was appointed an Aide-de-Camp to both William IV and Queen Victoria. He also served as First Lord of the Admiralty, 1834-1835, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1841-1844. He was a great patron of the arts, serving as President of the Institution of British Architects and it was said "...his ample fortune affords him the means of extending to the arts, to that of painting in particular, in which his Lordship himself excels, that patronage to which his well-cultivated taste and liberal disposition alike prompt him" (National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the 19th Century, 1830, vol. 1, p. 4).
Lord Grantham commissioned this pair of salvers to match a superb group of baroque period plate belonging to the De Grey family. The magnificent engraved arms copy those of a William III silver-gilt basin and pair of ewers, by Benjamin Pyne, 1699, which also sold from the De Grey Silver Settlement, Christie's, London, March 24, 1982, lot 95. The earlier engraving is attributed to the "Master of George Vertue" engraver, whose body of work included several commissions for King William and Queen Mary (see Charles Oman, English Engraved Silver, 1978, pp. 60-64).