Details
Each on sextafoil base cast with shells and anthemion rising to a knopped and fluted stems and spool shaped socket, with detachable conforming nozzle, later engraved on socket with a coat-of-arms and crest, marked underneath and on sockets, one engraved underneath with scratchweight 42:16
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high
82 oz. 7 dwt. (2,562 gr.)
The arms are those of Guest impaling Grosvenor for Thomas Merthyr Guest (1838-1904) of Inward House, Somerset, and his wife Lady Theodora Grosvenor, daughter of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, whom he married in 1877.
Provenance
Thomas Merthyr Guest (1838-1904), then by descent.
FURTHER DETAILS
For further information on the collection of the Viscounts Wimborne please visit the tab ‘The Wimborne Collection’ on the main sale page.
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