Details
Each shaped oval on four foliate scroll feet, with conforming side handles, the body embossed and chased with swirling lobes underneath an egg-and-dart border, and with rococo cartouches in centre, the domed cover with cast and chased preying eagle finial, marked underneath and on cover flange, engraved underneath with scratchweights 127:1 and 123:7
17 in. (43 cm.) long over handles
247 oz. 1 dwt. (7,685 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.
Provenance
Sir Ivor Bertie Guest 2nd Bt., later 1st Baron Wimborne (1835-1914), then by descent.
FURTHER DETAILS
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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