A GEORGE III SILVER EPERGNE

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A GEORGE III SILVER EPERGNE
LONDON, 1765, MAKER'S MARK WV/IL, PROBABLY FOR WILLIAM VERE & JOHN LUTWYCHE (GRIMWADE NO. 3908)

On four supports case and chased to resemble tree trunks and terminating in foliage and applied with insects, the openwork base applied with trailing grapevine and birds, the central shaped-oval basket similarly decorated and flanked by the cast figures of two Bacchic putti, with four entwined tendril branches each supporting a circular bracket with removable cut-glass dishes applied with reeded and grapevine borders, and two larger branches hung with similarly-decorated circular baskets with swing handles, the central basket engraved with a Baronet's armorials, the baskets with a crest, engraved under the central basket with a presentation inscription marked on base, dish, baskets, dish mounts and five branches--overall length over baskets 26in. (66cm.)
(108 oz.)

来源

Sotheby's, London, June 17, 1971, lot 145

拍品专文

The inscription reads: The Gift of Dame Anne Astley to Sr. Edward Astley 1766

The arms are those of Astley impaling those of Milles, as borne by Sir Edward Astley, 4th Bt., born in 1729. He married, as his first wife Rhoda, eldest daughter of Francis Blake Delaval. She died in 1757 and he married in 1759 Ann, youngest daughter of Sir Christopher Milles of Nackington, Kent, by whom he had three sons. She died in 1792. Sir Edward was M.P. for Norfolk 1768-1790 and married, as his third wife, Eliabeth Bullen. He died in 1802.

A similar epergne, without baskets, of 1767 with the maker's mark of William Grundy, was sold in these Rooms, October 30, 1990, lot 200.