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A suite of three George II silver condiment vases Elizabeth Godfrey, London 1751 (3)
5 July 2024, 14:00 BST
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Ellis Finch
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A suite of three George II silver condiment vases
Elizabeth Godfrey, London 1751
The cast vases comprising a large vase and a pair of smaller vases, of urn form with lobed flutes to the bellied lower bodies, each with two scroll side handles issuing from below husk banded rim, pull-off covers, circular and incurved below a gadroon band, domed above with lobed fluting and with a pierced band of scrolls, one cover blind, surmounted with stylised artichoke finials, the front of each later engraved with the initial 'V' below an Earls coronet, for George, 2nd Earl Vane, later 5th Marquess of Londonderry (1821 - 1884), underside of each base engraved with a total scratch weight of the vases '46-0' and the capital letter 'T', probably for 'Tempests', height 19.5cm and 15cm, weight 41.5oz. (3)
The cast vases comprising a large vase and a pair of smaller vases, of urn form with lobed flutes to the bellied lower bodies, each with two scroll side handles issuing from below husk banded rim, pull-off covers, circular and incurved below a gadroon band, domed above with lobed fluting and with a pierced band of scrolls, one cover blind, surmounted with stylised artichoke finials, the front of each later engraved with the initial 'V' below an Earls coronet, for George, 2nd Earl Vane, later 5th Marquess of Londonderry (1821 - 1884), underside of each base engraved with a total scratch weight of the vases '46-0' and the capital letter 'T', probably for 'Tempests', height 19.5cm and 15cm, weight 41.5oz. (3)
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Provenance:
Possibly the Tempests of Wynyard Park, County Durham, and by descent to the Marquesses of Londonderry.
Christies, The Raglan Collection: Wellington, Waterloo and The Crimea And Works of Art from the Collection of the Marquesses of Londonderry, 22nd – 23rd May 2014, lot 417
With Mary Cooke Antiques Limited 2014
The Patrick and Mavis Walker Silver Collection
Exhibited:
Exhibited in 1955 and lent by The Maquis of Londonderry and also in a publication and inventory done in 1949 of the Tempests of Wynyard Park, County Durham.
Stockton-on-Tees, Preston Hall Museum & Art Gallery, Catalogue of Old Silver, Lent by the Most Hon. the Marquis of Londonderry, D.L., J.P., 28 May - 5 September 1955, p. 9, no. 34, case 5.
Literature:
Inventory of Londonderry Plate at Garrard & Co., 1923, p36, 'Silver Dinner Service' (part)
Inventory of silver and plate, Wynyard Park, 1949. p. 6.
Wynyard Park, inventory, 1956, p. 169, as 'in the strong room and in daily use'.
The coronet and monogram being that used by George Henry Charles William VANE-TEMPEST (1821-1884) 2nd Earl Vane in the UK peerage, a title inherited in 1854 and later superseded when in 1872 he inherited the title of 5th Marquess of Londonderry in the Irish peerage.
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