Royal & Noble Including Jewels from an Important Noble Collection
Royal & Noble Including Jewels from an Important Noble Collection
An Important English Private Collection
Royal: an important pair of George III silver wine coolers, Parker & Wakelin, London, 1763, after a design by Pierre Germain
Lot Closed
January 17, 02:34 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
on cast circular bases of lobes and rocaille scrolls centred by shells, the bombé bodies applied in relief on both sides with the royal arms of Great Britain above garlands of grapes, leaves and flowers springing from vine stem handles, scratch weights: ‘73=4’ and ‘76=0’,
21cm., 8 ¼in. high
4650gr., 149 ½oz.
This lot will be on view in our New Bond Street galleries on 9th, 10th 11th, 12th, 15th, 16th and 17th January 2024.
John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, to his eldest daughter
Henrietta, married 1793 William Kerr, later 6th Marquis of Lothian, to their son
John Kerr, 7th Marquis of Lothian, and by descent
Sotheby’s, London, 15 May 2003, lot 100
Helen Clifford, Silver in London: The Parker and Wakelin Partnership 1760-1776, New Haven: Yale University Press for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, 2004, fig. 133, pp. 164-65