MARK OF AUGUSTIN LE SAGE, LONDON, 1769

Name: A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SOUP TUREENS AND COVERS
Brand: MARK OF AUGUSTIN LE SAGE, LONDON, 1769
Price: 12000.00 GBP
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A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SOUP TUREENS AND COVERS

MARK OF AUGUSTIN LE SAGE, LONDON, 1769

Starting Bid GBP 12,000

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Each shaped oval on four foliate scroll feet and with conforming side handles, the body embossed with swirling lobes framing a rococo cartouche later engraved with a coat-of-arms, below an egg-and-dart border, the domed cover with eagle and its prey finial, marked underneath and on cover's flange and dot numbered 1 and 2 on cover
14¹⁄₄ in. (36 cm.) long over handles
173 oz. 5 dwt. (5,389 gr.)
The arms are those of Guest impaling Spencer-Churchill for Sir Ivor Bertie Guest 2nd Bt., later 1st Baron Wimborne (1835-1914) and his wife Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill, daughter of John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough whom he married in 1868.

Sir Ivor Bertie Guest 2nd Bt., later 1st Baron Wimborne (1835-1914), then by descent.

For further information on the collection of the Viscounts Wimborne please visit the tab ‘The Wimborne Collection’ on the main sale page.

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