Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Lot 25
A George II silver brazier / chafing dish Paul Crespin London 1732
23 June 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,100 inc. premium
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A George II silver brazier / chafing dish
Paul Crespin London 1732
Circular with bellied sides and raised on four acanthus leaf-capped feet, the sides pieced and engraved with eight baskets of flowers within geometric scrolls, two drop-ring handles with lion mask brackets, engraved on either side with a coat of arms for Emanuel Scrope Howe (1700-1735), 2nd Vicount Howe, with a clear glass liner, length 24.5cm, diameter at top 20.8cm, weight 40oz.
Circular with bellied sides and raised on four acanthus leaf-capped feet, the sides pieced and engraved with eight baskets of flowers within geometric scrolls, two drop-ring handles with lion mask brackets, engraved on either side with a coat of arms for Emanuel Scrope Howe (1700-1735), 2nd Vicount Howe, with a clear glass liner, length 24.5cm, diameter at top 20.8cm, weight 40oz.
Footnotes
Emanuel Scope HOWE was the son and heir of Scrope HOWE (1648-1713) of Langar, Nottinghamshire a Whig MP who in 1713 was created Viscount Howe, by the heiress Juliana ALLINGTON (1655-1747) the second wife. In 1719 Emanuel Scrope married Mary Sophia Charlotte von KIELMANSEGG (1703-1782) daughter of John Adolph baron von KIELMANSEGGE (1688-1717) of Holstein, Hannover by Charlotte Sophia von PLATTEN who was widely accepted as the illegitimate daughter of George I. The sinister quarterly and escutcheon are the recognised arms of the von KIELMANSEGGE family. The 2nd Viscount was also Whig MP, was elected Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire in 1722 and from 1733 served as governor of Barbados, where he died in 1735 leaving his eldest son George Augustus HOWE (1725-1758), then aged ten years, as 3rd Viscount. Emanuel Howe had four sons.
Provenance
Anonymous sale Christie's London, 10th July 1984, lot 380
A New York Collector: Sotheby's New York, 24th October 2000, lot 391
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's Olympia 21st November 2002
Literature
The current lot is illustrated in Clayton, 'The Collector's Dictionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America'. Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1971, page 79.