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MARK OF PHILIP RUNDELL FOR RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL, LONDON, 1819
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A GEORGE III SILVER TEA-URN
MARK OF PHILIP RUNDELL FOR RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL, LONDON, 1819
On circular stepped and gadrooned base resting on four shell and grape feet, the vase shaped partially fluted body with mid-rib, and two lion's mask and leaf-capped reeded handles, the spigot terminating with a lion's mask and with rope tap and wood finial, the shoulder chased with egg-and-dart motif, the cover with a sliding fluted bud finial, with plain detachable liner, engraved on body with coat-of-arms beneath a coronet and on shoulder and cover with crest beneath a coronet, marked on body, cover and liner
16 in. (41 cm.) wide
gross weight 148 oz. 6 dwt. (4,614 gr.)
The arms and crest are those of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond K. G., P. C.(1791-1860). Richmond, while Earl of March, served on Wellington's staff in the Peninsular War. In 1817, he married Lady Caroline, daughter of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey and later that same year, reformed the Goodwood Troop of Yeomanry Artillery, originally raised by the 3rd Duke in 1797.
Richmond sat as Member of Parliament for Chichester between 1812 and 1819 when he succeeded his father in the dukedom and entered the House of Lords. He was a vehement opponent in the House of Lords of Roman Catholic emancipation and eventually led the Ultras into joining Earl Grey's reforming Whig government in 1830. In 1836, on inheriting the estates of his mother's brother, the fifth and last Duke of Gordon, he assumed the name of Gordon before that of Lennox.
MARK OF PHILIP RUNDELL FOR RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL, LONDON, 1819
On circular stepped and gadrooned base resting on four shell and grape feet, the vase shaped partially fluted body with mid-rib, and two lion's mask and leaf-capped reeded handles, the spigot terminating with a lion's mask and with rope tap and wood finial, the shoulder chased with egg-and-dart motif, the cover with a sliding fluted bud finial, with plain detachable liner, engraved on body with coat-of-arms beneath a coronet and on shoulder and cover with crest beneath a coronet, marked on body, cover and liner
16 in. (41 cm.) wide
gross weight 148 oz. 6 dwt. (4,614 gr.)
The arms and crest are those of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond K. G., P. C.(1791-1860). Richmond, while Earl of March, served on Wellington's staff in the Peninsular War. In 1817, he married Lady Caroline, daughter of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey and later that same year, reformed the Goodwood Troop of Yeomanry Artillery, originally raised by the 3rd Duke in 1797.
Richmond sat as Member of Parliament for Chichester between 1812 and 1819 when he succeeded his father in the dukedom and entered the House of Lords. He was a vehement opponent in the House of Lords of Roman Catholic emancipation and eventually led the Ultras into joining Earl Grey's reforming Whig government in 1830. In 1836, on inheriting the estates of his mother's brother, the fifth and last Duke of Gordon, he assumed the name of Gordon before that of Lennox.
Provenance
The Duke of Richmond and Gordon; Christie's, London, 20 July 1938, lot 108 (£43 to Mrs Rainey)
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 18 June 1988, lot 462.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 18 June 1988, lot 462.
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