Christopher Hartop
The Classical Ideal:
George III Hanover
Norfolk Summer:
P.G. Wodehouse
Recent Sales
English Silver, 1760?1840
Exhibition to benefit
Sir John Soane’s Museum
Dinner Service
Making The Go-Between
and the Silver Cow Creamer
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| An important George III silver-gilt sideboard dish
chased by William Pitts, hallmarked London, 1808, retailed by Rundell, Bridge and Rundell The central scene of the Feast of the Gods is after a sixteenth-century bronze plaque by Guglielmo della Porta. |
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| An exceptionally rare
Elizabethan silver-mounted dichroic glass casting bottle, c. 1560-80 Dichroic glass is doubly refracting, showing a different colour when light is shone through it. Sale recently negotiated to a major institution. |
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A Spanish colonial silver-gilt dish, c. 1730, probably Alto Peru The initial and coronet are those borne by Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), 6th son of King George III.
Provenance This dish is part of a small group of related eighteenth-century Peruvian pieces with an English provenance. Sale recently negotiated to a North American institution. |
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