A pair of George IV silver-mounted hardstone wine coolers, Samuel Jackson, London, 1821 and 1822

the slender vase-shaped bodies applied with acanthus foliage alternating with stylized flowers, each applied with two handles springing from bearded masks, the bodies further applied on one side with a raised coat-of-arms, helm and crest within a foliate cartouche below applied vine and bead lips

Hallmarks clear to both handle mounts, both applied cartouches and one rim mount. The other is heavily rubbed. One of the hardstone bodies is cracked right through one side of the base with glue visible. There are other areas of glue visible under the body/handle mounts and around the mid-section of the body. There is also various flaking, hairline cracking and fractures visible. One large chip visible under rim. The other is in better condition with a crack running through the centre of the base although not completely through. This crack runs up through the girdle into the main body. The body with various other cracks, hairlines and flaking, some of which are natural. The mounts are die-stamped and therefore a little thin. Subsequently there are a couple of holes and splits visible in the rim mounts on both, with further wear to the fruiting vine decoration. The body mounts fit fairly well to the body, a couple of areas probably repaired. Nice objects but would recommend viewing.
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The arms are those of Astley quartering Constable for Sir Jacob Astley, 6th Bt (1797-1859), who succeeded to the title and large family estates in Norfolk and Northumberland upon the death of his father in 1817. He, who married in 1819 Georgiana Carolina (d. 1835), second daughter of Sir Henry Watkin Dashwood, 3rd Bt., was M.P. for West Norfolk from 1832 until 1837. In 1841 he was summoned to the House of Lords in the ancient barony of Hastings, being one of the heirs of John Hastinges (d. 1542), de jure Lord Hastings through the latter's sisters and coheirs, the barony having been in abeyance for 300 years.