Details
The triform base applied at angles with boldly cast rampant lions and shields connected by grapevine and flanking a mound mounted with a figure of St. George on a rearing horse about to spear the writhing dragon, the tree form stem with nine branches and central basket, apparently unmarked
39 in. (99 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 20 April 2009, lot 26.
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The iconography of "St. George and the Dragon" was used for several monumental silver centerpieces in the 1840s. A thirteen-light example, height 115 cm, was made by Robert Garrard II for the newly crowned Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, was sold by Sotheby's in 2005 from Schloss Marienburg, lot 2209. Another thirteen-light example, designed by Edward Hodges Bailey and made by John S. Hunt for the Russian Imperial Ascot Trophy of 1846, formerly in the Al-Tajir Collection and most recently the Orange Blossom Collection, was sold Christie's, New York, 27 January 2023, lot 13 and was reproduced on the cover of The Exceptional sale catalogue.

Edward Barnard & Sons of London and Thomas Bradbury & Sons of Sheffield, were both capable of producing such elaborate work, though both usually signed their plated productions.

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