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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE VISCOUNT WIMBORNE
A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III LEAD GARDEN URNS

18TH CENTURY

Current Bid (1 Bid)GBP 2,000
Estimate
GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000
Closing: 6 days
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A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III LEAD GARDEN URNS

18TH CENTURY

Current Bid (1 Bid)GBP 2,000
Closing: 6 days
Current Bid (1 Bid)GBP 2,000
Closing: 6 days
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Four of typical form, with scrolling acanthus handles and Bacchic frieze cast in relief, one with serpent handles and foliate border and three with figure heads to the bodies, all on turned tapering socles
The largest: 24 in. (69 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide; 15 in. (38 cm.) deep
Provenance
Almost certainly acquired by Ivor Churchill Guest (1873-1939), 1st Viscount Wimborne, for Ashby St Ledgers Manor, Northamptonshire, where photographed on the East terrace before 1951,
thence by descent.
Literature
'Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire - II', Country Life, vol. CIX, 3 August 1951, pp. 348-351, fig. 1.
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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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