A pair of George II silver-gilt toilette jars, Ayme Videau, London, 1755

of octagonal baluster shape, engraved  overall with garlands of flowers within scrolls, one panel also with a cartouche enclosing a coat-of-arms, detachable cover, each with scratchweight 42=2

Sir John Fleming, 1st Bt., presumably as a gift to his wife Jane (d. 1813) on their marriage in 1758, and then by descent to their daughter and co-heir
Jane, Countess of Harrington (d. 1823), wife of Charles, 3rd Earl of Harrington (1753-1829) and then by descent to their grandaughter
Lady Jane, Marchioness Conyngham (d. 1907), only surviving child of Charles, 4th Earl of Harrington (1780-1851), and wife of George Henry, 3rd Marchioness Conyngham (1825-1882)
The Marchioness Conyngham; Christie's, London, 4 May 1908, lot 56 (as part of a twenty-one piece toilet service)

Fully marked on undersides, part marked on covers, marks good and clear, minor wear to gilding at highlights, overall excellent condition
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The arms are those of Fleming impaling Coleman for Sir John Fleming, 1^st Bt. of Brompton Park, Middlesex, who was born in Ireland about 1730, the son of Lieut. Robert Fleming of his brother, Major General James Fleming’s 36^th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot. He was married on 3 July 1753 at Westminster Abbey to Jane, daughter of William Coleman of Garnhay, Devonshire, and his wife, Jane (Seymour), sister of Edward, 8^th Duke of Somerset. Fleming, who was elevated to the peerage on 22 April 1763, died without surviving male heir at his Mayfair house, (33) Grosvenor Street, a few months later on 6 November, when his title became extinct. Of Sir John and Lady Fleming’s four daughters, only one, Seymour Dorothy (1758/59-1818) was married, first in 1775 to Sir Richard Worsley, 7^thBt. of Appuldurcombe House, Isle of Wight. The marriage was not a success, however, and she afterwards became infamous for her various liasons. She is the subject of Hallie Rubenhold’s book, Lady Worsley’s Whim, published by Vintage Books in London in 2008. A well-known full-length portrait of her by Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted in 1776, is at Harewood House, Yorkshire.
Lady Fleming married for a second time on 31 March 1770 as his second wife, Edwin Lascelles (1712/13-1795), who in 1790 was created Baron Harewood. She died at 16 Portman Street, Marylebone, on 11 April 1813, and was buried with her first husband in Westminster Abbey.