A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU WINE COOLERS, ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHEW BOULTON PLATE CO. OF BIRMINGHAM, CIRCA 1815-20

A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU WINE COOLERS
ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHEW BOULTON PLATE CO. OF BIRMINGHAM, CIRCA 1815-20
Each of campana form with egg-and-dart everted rim, the bodies decorated with grape vines and flowerhead and trellis border, with twin lion mask handles above a spreading base decorated with acanthus and a laurel band, engraved twice with a cypher 'B' beneath a baron's coronet for Baron Bexley and with the coat-of-arms Vansittart impaling Eden of the Rt. Hon. Nicholas Vansittart
11 in. (28 cm.) high; 11 in. (28 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Valuable Service of Plate of the Late Lord Bexley, removed from Foots Cray Place, Kent; sold, Christie's, London, 9 June 1876, lot 154 (A Set of Six Handsome Ormolu vases, with wreaths of vines in relief, and masks under the handles, forming ice pails, £32.10s.).
One possibly from The Property of Cyril Butcher, from the Collection of Beverley Nichols; sold Christie's, London, 31 May 1984, lot 88 or, possibly the pair sold from the Late Mrs Heard de Osborne; Christie's, South Kensington, 5 October 1994, lot 610.
Acquired from Christopher Hodsell.

CHIEVELEY HOUSE, BERKSHIRE: THE PROPERTY OF MR. AND MRS. NICHOLAS STANLEY (LOTS 1 - 99)