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MARK OF THOMAS PITTS, LONDON, 1763
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THE HAMPDEN EPERGNE
A GEORGE III SILVER EPERGNE
MARK OF THOMAS PITTS, LONDON, 1763
Of pagoda form, the base cast with fruiting and flowering foliage and on four openwork foliage scroll feet, with a lower tier of four branches supporting openwork dishes, with a second tier of four branches supporting baskets with overhead swing handles, with a central similar basket flanked by four ribbon-tied supports for the overhead openwork canopy, the upper tier of baskets each with alternate two-light branches, the central basket with alternate cast figure of flora, each of the baskets engraved with a crest below a viscount's coronet, fully marked on base, canopy and central basket, part marked on all but one branch, three dishes, three baskets and figure
24½ in. (62.3 cm.) high
364 oz. 10 dwt. (11,337 gr.)
The crest is that of Trevor, probably for Robert (Hampden formerly Trevor), 4th Baron Trevor (1701-1783) who was created Viscount Hampden in 1776.
A GEORGE III SILVER EPERGNE
MARK OF THOMAS PITTS, LONDON, 1763
Of pagoda form, the base cast with fruiting and flowering foliage and on four openwork foliage scroll feet, with a lower tier of four branches supporting openwork dishes, with a second tier of four branches supporting baskets with overhead swing handles, with a central similar basket flanked by four ribbon-tied supports for the overhead openwork canopy, the upper tier of baskets each with alternate two-light branches, the central basket with alternate cast figure of flora, each of the baskets engraved with a crest below a viscount's coronet, fully marked on base, canopy and central basket, part marked on all but one branch, three dishes, three baskets and figure
24½ in. (62.3 cm.) high
364 oz. 10 dwt. (11,337 gr.)
The crest is that of Trevor, probably for Robert (Hampden formerly Trevor), 4th Baron Trevor (1701-1783) who was created Viscount Hampden in 1776.
Provenance
Almost certainly Robert Hampden (formerly Trevor), 4th Baron Trevor
(1701-1783), created 1st Viscount Hampden in 1776 and then by descent
to his son
Thomas Trevor, 2nd Viscount Hampden (1746-1824) who married, as his
second wife in 1805, Jane Maria Brown (1773-1833), daughter of George
Brown of Elliston, following their deaths without issue by descent to
Jane's great-nephew
Henry Walter Hope (1839-1913), of Luffness, East Lothian
The Trustees of Henry W. Hope, Esq., late of Luffness, East Lothian;
Christie's London, 24 January 1923, lot 58 (as by Thomas Powell and
with a plated mirror plateau, £205 to F. Wine)
With Partridge, London.
(1701-1783), created 1st Viscount Hampden in 1776 and then by descent
to his son
Thomas Trevor, 2nd Viscount Hampden (1746-1824) who married, as his
second wife in 1805, Jane Maria Brown (1773-1833), daughter of George
Brown of Elliston, following their deaths without issue by descent to
Jane's great-nephew
Henry Walter Hope (1839-1913), of Luffness, East Lothian
The Trustees of Henry W. Hope, Esq., late of Luffness, East Lothian;
Christie's London, 24 January 1923, lot 58 (as by Thomas Powell and
with a plated mirror plateau, £205 to F. Wine)
With Partridge, London.
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Olivia Leahy
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