Details
Each formed as a fluted Corinthian column on a tapering square base chased with ribs and acanthus leaves at the corners, with removable square nozzles with gadrooned rims, the nozzles later engraved with monogram MWdeB and with a baron's coronet, weighted, marked on base rims and nozzles, one nozzle apparently unmarked
1338 in. (34 cm.) high
260 oz. 14 dwt. (8,108 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
Property from the Ernest and Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation; Sotheby's, New York, 18 April 2002, lot 310.
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The monogram and coronet on the present lot is that of the Willoughby de Broke family, probably for Margaret Williams (1799-1888), who married Henry Peyto-Verney (1773-1852), the 16th Baron Willoughby de Broke, in 1829.

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