A GEORGE III SILVER PAGODA EPERGNE MARK OF THOMAS PITTS LONDON, 1761, SOME BASKETS WITH MARK OF THOMAS BUMFRISS AND ORLANDO JACKSON, LONDON, CIRCA 1770 The base on scrolling legs with four arms supporting openwork baskets with overhead handles, the cast openwork fruiting foliage skirt with four arms each supporting a circular fluted dish, the central basket pierced with geometric motifs and framed by four columns supporting the pagoda-shaped canopy with suspended bells and pineapple finial, each piece later engraved with an initial 'S' below a Royal Duke's coronet, marked on edge of canopy, on finial, underneath basket, on edge of base, the dishes marked on foot, two baskets marked on foot with maker's mark only, seven arms marked at the end, the columns and bells and one arm apparently unmarked, further engraved under the basket 'The Weight of the Whole 230=10' 22 in. (56 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide 221 oz. (6,874 gr.) The initial is for H.R.H. Prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex (1773-1840), 6th son of King George III. Provenance H.R.H. Prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex (1773-1843). The Late Royal Highness The Duke of Sussex, K.G.; Christie's London, 27 June 1843, lot 549 (£79 to Phillips). Possibly acquired by William Townley Mitford (1817-1889), of Pitshill, Sussex, Captain William Slade Mitford (1898-1966), of Pitshill, Sussex, The Will Trust of the late Captain W. S. Mitford; Christie's London, 27 November 1974, lot 86 (£3,600 to A. Phillips). Mrs. E. L. Harris, daughter of Captain William Slade Mitford, by descent to, A Gentleman; Christie's, London, 12 June 2006, lot 114, where acquired.
A GEORGE III SILVER PAGODA EPERGNE MARK OF THOMAS PITTS LONDON, 1761, SOME BASKETS WITH MARK OF THOMAS BUMFRISS AND ORLANDO JACKSON, LONDON, CIRCA 1770 The base on scrolling legs with four arms supporting openwork baskets with overhead handles, the cast openwork fruiting foliage skirt with four arms each supporting a circular fluted dish, the central basket pierced with geometric motifs and framed by four columns supporting the pagoda-shaped canopy with suspended bells and pineapple finial, each piece later engraved with an initial 'S' below a Royal Duke's coronet, marked on edge of canopy, on finial, underneath basket, on edge of base, the dishes marked on foot, two baskets marked on foot with maker's mark only, seven arms marked at the end, the columns and bells and one arm apparently unmarked, further engraved under the basket 'The Weight of the Whole 230=10' 22 in. (56 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide 221 oz. (6,874 gr.) The initial is for H.R.H. Prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex (1773-1840), 6th son of King George III. Provenance H.R.H. Prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex (1773-1843). The Late Royal Highness The Duke of Sussex, K.G.; Christie's London, 27 June 1843, lot 549 (£79 to Phillips). Possibly acquired by William Townley Mitford (1817-1889), of Pitshill, Sussex, Captain William Slade Mitford (1898-1966), of Pitshill, Sussex, The Will Trust of the late Captain W. S. Mitford; Christie's London, 27 November 1974, lot 86 (£3,600 to A. Phillips). Mrs. E. L. Harris, daughter of Captain William Slade Mitford, by descent to, A Gentleman; Christie's, London, 12 June 2006, lot 114, where acquired.
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