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Lot 31

A George III silver waiter.  Ebenezer Coker,  London, 1762.  Of shaped, circular form and raised...

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Lot 31

A George III silver waiter. 
Ebenezer Coker, 
London, 1762. 
Of shaped, circular form and raised...

Price Realised: £472

Estimate: £300 - £500

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Lot 31

Description

A George III silver waiter. 

Ebenezer Coker, 

London, 1762. 

Of shaped, circular form and raised on three pad feet, the gadrooned border decorated with fan points and the base engraved with the crest of the Dukedom of Buckingham and the crest of Ellison above the arms of Ellis(t)on/Egleston quartering another, the waiter later engraved to the reverse with the inscription 'Purchased at the Stowe Sale and Presented to Aunt Forster by her attached relatives, Robert & Emma Hennell, Sept. 1848', 17cm dia., approx. weight 8.9ozt

Arms: Per pale Gules and vert an eagle displayed quartering Argent a chevron sable between 3 roundels. for Ellis(t)on/Egleston quartering another. (With thanks to Pursuivant Research) 

 

Described by Country Life as 'one of the five sales that made Christie's,' the Stowe sale of 1848 lasted for over 40 days and saw the contents of Stowe House - including the deer in the park - auctioned off to settle the huge debts that the second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos had inherited - and augmented - thanks to his extravagant taste and poor money management. As The Times put it, he ‘flung all away by extravagance and folly, and reduced his honours to the tinsel of a pauper and the bauble of a fool’.

 

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