A DUTCH HOT MILK JUG ZUTPHEN, CIRCA 1770, MAKER'S MARK SL Pear-shaped and melon fluted, on six foliage feet and with hinged domed cover formed as a leaf, with stem finial, engraved with two crests beneath Earl's coronet. marked on base 7in. (17.5cm.) high gross 13ozs. (417grs.) The crests are those of Robinson and de Grey, for Thomas Philip Weddell, 3rd Baron Grantham and 2nd Earl de Grey (1781-1859), who had inherited the Barony on the death of his father in 1786. He had inherited a baronetcy on the death of his kinsman Sir Philip Norton 5th Bt. in 1792 and then succeeded to the Earldon of de Grey via his maternal aunt Amabel, Countess de Grey who died in 1804. He then assumed the names and arms of de Grey. He married Lady Henrietta Frances Cole, daughter of William, 1st Earl of Enniskillen, in 1805 and was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Co. Bedford
A DUTCH HOT MILK JUG ZUTPHEN, CIRCA 1770, MAKER'S MARK SL Pear-shaped and melon fluted, on six foliage feet and with hinged domed cover formed as a leaf, with stem finial, engraved with two crests beneath Earl's coronet. marked on base 7in. (17.5cm.) high gross 13ozs. (417grs.) The crests are those of Robinson and de Grey, for Thomas Philip Weddell, 3rd Baron Grantham and 2nd Earl de Grey (1781-1859), who had inherited the Barony on the death of his father in 1786. He had inherited a baronetcy on the death of his kinsman Sir Philip Norton 5th Bt. in 1792 and then succeeded to the Earldon of de Grey via his maternal aunt Amabel, Countess de Grey who died in 1804. He then assumed the names and arms of de Grey. He married Lady Henrietta Frances Cole, daughter of William, 1st Earl of Enniskillen, in 1805 and was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Co. Bedford
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