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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER-GILT FRUIT-COOLERS
MARK OF PAUL STORR LONDON, 1817, RETAILED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER-GILT FRUIT-COOLERS MARK OF PAUL STORR LONDON, 1817, RETAILED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL Each campana-shaped and on shaped square base with acanthus-cast bracket feet, the stem applied on each side with cast coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet and flanked by cast heraldic supporters, the lower body applied with foliage and on one side with a horse and jockey and on the other with a running fox, with reeded handles, the detachable bowls with fruiting grapevine borders and engraved coats-of-arms below an earl's coronet, fully marked except on coats-of-arms and mottos, further stamped underneath 'RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALLæ REGENTIS BRITANNIAS, the bowls further stamped '210' 11 1/8 in. (28.5 cm.) high gross weight 567 oz. 10 dwt. (17,652 gr.) The arms are those of Vane, for William Harry, 3rd Earl of Darlington and later 1st Duke of Cleveland (1766-1842). Vane was the son of Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington and his wife Lady Grace FitzRoy, daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland. He succeeded to the title in 1792 on the death of his father. He married twice, first, in 1787, to his cousin Katherine (1766-1807), second daughter and co-heir of Harry, 6th Duke of Bolton and second, in 1813, to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Russell a market gardener. (2)