A pair of Queen Anne silver wine-coolers
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A pair of Queen Anne silver wine-coolers

MARK OF JOHN BODINGTON, LONDON, CIRCA 1710

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GBP 223,650

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A pair of Queen Anne silver wine-coolers
Mark of John Bodington, London, circa 1710
Each urn-shaped on slightly domed circular foot, with gadrooned borders and moulded mid-rib, the lower body chased with alternating strapwork panels with husking, guilloche and paterae on a partly-textured ground, with upper scroll and foliage border, the two foliate bud ring-handles with lion's mask and strapwork terminals, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms within foliate scroll, husk, and brickwork mantling, the detachable collar with rope-twist border, the liners fixed, each marked on side of body with maker's mark only, the handles unmarked, one pair of handles modern replacements
10¾in. (27.2cm.) high
243oz. (7,573gr.)
The arms are those of Forde impaling Knox for Mathew Forde of Seaforde and Coolgreany. and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Knox (d.1769) of Dungannon and sister of Thomas, 1st Viscount Northland (1729-1818), whom he married in 1750. Mathew Forde was M.P. for Downpatrick. (2)

Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 20 May 1987, lot 392

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These coolers are identical to a pair by David Willaume, 1698-99, at Chatsworth, the earliest recorded single bottle wine-coolers