A VICTORIAN SILVER-MOUNTED FROSTED-GLASS CLARET JUG AND STAND

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A VICTORIAN SILVER-MOUNTED FROSTED-GLASS CLARET JUG AND STAND
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN S. HUNT, LONDON, 1845

The vase-shaped body and spreading foot applied with elaborate trailing grapevine, with tendril form handle, the hinged cover surmounted by the Russian imperial crown, applied under the lip with an elaborate cypher surmounted by the same crown, the circular stand with elaborate grapevine border, engraved with the same cypher and crown, fully marked, also stamped HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR MORTIMER & HUNT and numbered 1802 --overall height 14½in. (37cm.)

拍品专文

The cypher is that of Maximilinne Wilhelmine Marie who is better known as Maria Alexandrovna, the Tzarina of Alexander II. Born in 1824, she was the daughter of the Grand Duke Louis II of Hesse and married the future Tzar in 1841.

A pair of jugs on stands from the same service and applied with the same monogram, hallmarked 1844 and numbered 1803 and 2004, was sold by Sotheby's, London, November 12, 1970, lot 236. A pair of similar examples by the same, made for the Earl of Zetland in 1845, was sold in the same Rooms, March 27, 1969, lot 165, and another pair, without stands, made for the Duke of Bedford in 1840, was sold May 9, 1988, lot 615.