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Of royal interest. An assembled canteen of George III and IV silver gilt dessert flatware.
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Of royal interest. An assembled canteen of George III and IV silver gilt dessert flatware.
Price Realised: £6,035
Estimate: £5,000 - £8,000
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Lot 6
Description
Of royal interest. An assembled canteen of George III and IV silver gilt dessert flatware.
1799-1820.
The canteen comprising: four dessert spoons with fig-shaped bowls, twisted stems and crowned lion finials, London, 1820, William Eley I & William Fearn, engraved to the reverse of bowls with the Royal Crest, Garter motto and coronet for one of the sons of George III, 18.1cm long; twelve dessert spoons, London, 1801, William Eley I & William Fearn, 18.8cm long; twelve Austro-Hungarian three-tined forks, Vienna, 1799, 13 loth, 18.2cm long; twelve dessert knives with silver blades, London, 1801, Moses Brent, 21.5cm long; twelve teaspoons and two pairs of sugar tongs, London, 1803 & 1804, Richard Crossley, engraved with Prince of Wales coronet and the cypher CR for Queen Charlotte, also engraved with the cypher M beneath a coronet for Princess Mary, 14cm long, the canteen box applied with a Crichton Bros. retailer plaque and a second plaque reading 'Formerly the property of H.R.H. The Late Duke of Cambridge', total weighable silver (exc. knives) approx. 72.5ozt
Lot Footnotes
This collection of flatware appears to have come from the extensive collection of silver once owned by the 2nd Duke of Cambridge. George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, was a grandson of George III and Queen Charlotte and was born in 1819. He died in 1904 having served as Commander-in-chief of the British Army from 1856-1895. On his death in 1904 there were several auctions of his property including the 'valuable collection of Old English and Foreign Silver and Silver-gilt plate of his Highness the Duke of Cambridge...Deceased' at Christie's on June 6th and 7th 1904. The Duke had married Sarah Fairbrother in 1847, contrary to the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, and none of his children were eligible to inherit his titles. All three sons took the name FitzGeorge. The sale of objects belonging to the Duke, an important group of Royal pieces that it had been assumed would be left back to the Crown, was to fund the youngest two of the Duke's children. Some pieces were still left within the Royal family.
The sale catalogue does not record a single lot which would exactly equate to the pieces now assembled and this could suggest that these pieces went to one of the Duke's sons (or another member of the family) and were subsequently sold. The dessert knives, forks and spoons were probably acquired by the 7th son of George III, Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge, (1774-1850). He is also the most likely recipient of the four spoons with twisted stems and terminals in the form of the Royal crest which are usually associated with the coronation of George IV (a group of 48 of these formed lot 234 of the Cambridge sale in 1904). The remaining pieces bear the cypher of the 2nd Duke's grandmother Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) and those of her 4th daughter Princess Mary (1776-1857). When the latter died she bequeathed Royal pieces within the family but her residuary legatee was her nephew- the 2nd Duke of Cambridge. (With thanks to Pursuivant Research)
A single spoon with lion crest terminal and twisted stem sold at Woolley & Wallis in 2021 (please see Lot 217, Silver & Objects of Vertu -Day 1, 13th July 2021: https://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/departments/silver/sv130721/view-lot/217/
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