A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER, MARK OF FREDERICK KANDLER, LONDON, 1760

A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER
MARK OF FREDERICK KANDLER, LONDON, 1760
Bombé shaped on domed stepped foot, the plain body applied with vine tendril and with two leaf-capped scroll handles, the domed cover with pinecone finial, engraved twice on cup with a coat-of-arms and on cover with a crest, marked under foot and on cover bezel
14 ½ in. (36.8 cm.) high
86 oz. 4 dwt. (2,682 gr.)
The arms are those of Fortescue implaing Campbell, for Matthew Fortescue, 2nd Baron Fortescue (1719-1785) and his wife Anne (d. 1812), daughter of John Campbell of Cawdor Castle and Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire, whom he married in 1752.

Provenance

Matthew Fortescue, 2nd Baron Fortescue (1719-1785).

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION LOTS 124-198