A Park Avenue Treasury: The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection
A Park Avenue Treasury: The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection
The Eglinton Service: A Pair of George III Silver-Gilt Salvers on Foot, Digby Scott & Benjamin Smith, London for Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, 1805
Auction Closed
June 18, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
openwork grapevine border, center engraved with arms under earl's coronet, marked on base rims and grapevine rims, stamped with the Latin signature of Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, Royal goldsmith
104 oz
3234 g
Diameter 12 in.
30.5 cm
The Chen Collection, sold
Lyon & Turnbull, London, 23 November 2008, lot 171
The arms are those of Montgomerie for Hugh Montgomerie (1739-1819), 12th Earl of Eglinton, see note to preceding lot.
He built up an impressive collection of gilt plate, particularly by Digby Scott, Benjamin Smith, and James Smith, in the early the 19th century. This included a pair of two-color gilt baskets of 1803 (Sotheby's, New York, October 22, 2002, lot 508), a pair of egg cruets of 1805/06 (Sotheby's, London, November 20, 2003), a pair of butter tubs of 1806 formerly in the Hartman collection (Sotheby's, New York, Oct. 18, 2001, lot 257), four circular and four oval dishes of the same year, and four kidney-shaped dishes of 1809-10 (Christie's, London, June 15, 2004, lot 32A), and the preceding lot. In the second decade of the century, after beginning horse racing in 1809, he won ten silver-gilt cups, by makers including William Burwash and Joseph Hardy, sold Christie's, London, June 15, 2004, lots 33 to 38. Much of the family silver descended to Archibald, 16th Earl of Eglinton and Winton (1880-1945), and was sold at Christie's London, 12 July 1922.