A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER WINE-COOLERS, COLLARS AND LINERS

MARK OF THOMAS ROBINS, LONDON, 1809

Details

A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER WINE-COOLERS, COLLARS AND LINERS
MARK OF THOMAS ROBINS, LONDON, 1809
Campana form on spreading foot, the lower body part-fluted and with scroll handles with lion-mask terminals, applied later on each side with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet, marked on foot, collar and liner
9 5/8 in. (24.3 cm.) high
211 oz. 6 dwt. (6,573 gr.)
The arms are those of Bernard impaling Brodrick for James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon (1785-1856) and his wife Susan, daughter of the Rev. the Hon. Charles Brodrick, Archbishop of Cashel, whom he married in 1809. He succeed his father in 1830 therefore the arms are likely have been applied circa 1830.

Provenance

James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon (1785-1856).

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Lot Essay

A set of twelve dinner plates, by Benjamin Smith, London, 1806 and 1809, from the dinner service, of James, 2nd Earl of Bandon, engraved with arms matching the applied coat-of-arms on the present lot, were sold in Christie's New York on 19 October 2004, lot 1014.

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