A SCANDINAVIAN SILVER TANKARD MAKER'S MARK ONLY WA, CIRCA 1700 Plain cylindrical on three lion and ball feet, with foliate scroll handle, the hinged cover engraved with border of flowers and foliage and applied with lion and ball thumbpiece, later engraved with a coat-of-arms beneath earl's coronet, and on base 'From E. S. For O. S.' , marked underneath 8 3/8 in. (21.5 cm.) high 41 oz. 9 dwt. (1,290 gr.) The arms are those of Acheson, for the Earls of Gosford. Provenance Acquired by the philanthropist and collector Ogden Mills for his Parisian residence 73, rue de Varenne, inherited by his daughter, Beatrice, the Countess of Granard, and by descent in the family.
A SCANDINAVIAN SILVER TANKARD MAKER'S MARK ONLY WA, CIRCA 1700 Plain cylindrical on three lion and ball feet, with foliate scroll handle, the hinged cover engraved with border of flowers and foliage and applied with lion and ball thumbpiece, later engraved with a coat-of-arms beneath earl's coronet, and on base 'From E. S. For O. S.' , marked underneath 8 3/8 in. (21.5 cm.) high 41 oz. 9 dwt. (1,290 gr.) The arms are those of Acheson, for the Earls of Gosford. Provenance Acquired by the philanthropist and collector Ogden Mills for his Parisian residence 73, rue de Varenne, inherited by his daughter, Beatrice, the Countess of Granard, and by descent in the family.
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