Sale 5377
London
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30 - 31 May 2012
Price realised
GBP 12,500
Estimate
A SET OF SIX GEORGE III SILVER SALT-CELLARS MARK OF SAMUEL HENNELL, LONDON, 1819 Each bombé circular and on leaf-capped paw feet, the sides chased with foliage and flowers on matted ground, with leaf-cast borders and gilt interiors, engraved with a crest below a Royal princess' coronet, each marked underneath, with associated later glass liners 4½ in. (11.5 cm.) diam. 80 oz. 17 dwt. (2,515 gr.) The initial is probably that of Princess Sophia (1777-1848), fifth of the six daughters of George III and Queen Charlotte. Queen Charlotte was protective of her daughters, attempting to shield them from marriage, and limit their suitors. As such Princess Sophia never married, though she did form an attachment to Major General Thomas Garth (1744-1828), bearing him a son named Thomas (d. 1875), who Garth raised at Weymouth. Following her death in 1848, Princess Sophia's jewellery and silver was valued by Garrard's at £6,728 2s 6d. Part of the plate was sold by Garrard's in 1848 for £1,012 17s 6d. Vicarage Place and its residual contents were sold by Christie's, 1848-1849. (See Jane Roberts, ed., George III and Queen Charlotte, Patronage, Collecting and Court Taste, 2004, p. 388). (6)
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