• Centuries of Style: Silver, Eu auction at Christies

    Sale 5377

    Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes

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    30 - 31 May 2012

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    • A SET OF SIX GEORGE III SILVER
    Lot 373

    A SET OF SIX GEORGE III SILVER SALT-CELLARS

    MARK OF SAMUEL HENNELL, LONDON, 1819

    Price realised

    GBP 12,500

    Estimate

    GBP 10,000 - GBP 15,000

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    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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