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An Early Victorian Silver Two-bottle Wine Trolley, John Mortimer & John S. Hunt, London, 1840
Estimate
65,000 - 85,000 USD
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Description
- marked on underside, handle and two wheels, underside stamped MORTIMER & HUNT 272
- silver
- length 18 1/2 in.
- 47cm
formed as a chariot fitted with two wine coasters, the sides with borders of berried ivy above applied scrolling grapevine and pendant grapes, raised on four wagon wheels, with branch handle supported by two pulling putti and terminating in satyr head , the opposite end with one putto pushing the trolley, the front of the trolley engraved with two contemporary crests, the underside engraved E.C.G. and 47
Provenance
The crests are those of Guiness and Lee.
Literature
(Galitzine examples) Peter B. Brown and Marla H. Schwartz, Come Drink the Bowl Dry. York: Fairfax House, 1996, p. 88.
Catalogue Note
In 1839, Mortimer and Hunt supplied two chariots of this model to Prince Galitzine, sold Sotheby's, London, 19 June 1986, lot 6.