THE EMPEROR'S PLATE, 1851 A MAGNIFICENT VICTORIAN SILVER RACING TROPHY IN THE FORM OF A WINE CISTERN MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD LONDON, 1851, AFTER A DESIGN BY EDWARD COTTERILL The oval bombé bowl supported on four robust scrolling foliage feet, the front applied with the Russian Imperial arms, the rim applied with a cast crown surmounted by an orb, each side with a finely cast handle, modeled as a dragon with wings extended, the back plate engraved with a Latin inscription and surmounted by a realistically cast scene of a covered sledge pulled by a horse and with another in hand, being attacked by a pack of five wolves, the driver fending off the wolves with his whip as the passenger fells a wolf with his pistol while protecting his female companion, all in a snowy landscape in the manner of the Russian painter Nikolai Egorovich Sverchkov (1817-1898), applied with the date '1851', the reverse later engraved with three coats-of-arms within a cartouche and below an earl's coronet, fully marked , contained in a two door oak case applied with a brass plaque inscribed 'HEIRLOOMS GEORGE STEVENS EARL OF STAFFORD NO. 14', the inside of each door applied with a label, each printed with the Royal coat-of-arms, R. & S. Garrard and Co. and with details of their Royal warrant, one further inscribed in an unknown hand 'Chest No. 14 A large chased silver Font of Cistern with Group of Wolves attacking travellers' 32¾ in. (83 cm.) high 35½ in. (90 cm.) maximum width 915 oz. (28,466 gr.) The inscription reads 'Ludorum Ascotiensium Memor Quibus Ipse Interfuisset Reginae Victoriae Hospes Mens Jun MDCCCXLIV Solenne Certaminis Equestris Praemium Instituit Nicolaus Totius Russiae Imperator' which translates as 'Nicholas Emperor of all Russia, established a prize for an equestrian contest, remembering Ascot races, at which he himself had been present as a guest of Queen Victoria in June 1844.' The coats-of arms are those of Byng for George Stevens Byng, 2 n d Earl of Strafford (1806-1886) who succeeded his father in 1860, flanked by Paget and Cavendish for his two wives. The shield on the dexter of the Byng coat is for his first wife Lady Agnes Paget, 5 t h daughter of the 1 s t Marquess of Anglesey whom he married in 1829 and died 1845. The shield on the sinister side is for his second wife Harriet Elizabeth, younger daughter of Charles Compton Cavendish, later Baron Chesham of Chesham, Co. Bucks, whom he married in 1848.
THE EMPEROR'S PLATE, 1851 A MAGNIFICENT VICTORIAN SILVER RACING TROPHY IN THE FORM OF A WINE CISTERN MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD LONDON, 1851, AFTER A DESIGN BY EDWARD COTTERILL The oval bombé bowl supported on four robust scrolling foliage feet, the front applied with the Russian Imperial arms, the rim applied with a cast crown surmounted by an orb, each side with a finely cast handle, modeled as a dragon with wings extended, the back plate engraved with a Latin inscription and surmounted by a realistically cast scene of a covered sledge pulled by a horse and with another in hand, being attacked by a pack of five wolves, the driver fending off the wolves with his whip as the passenger fells a wolf with his pistol while protecting his female companion, all in a snowy landscape in the manner of the Russian painter Nikolai Egorovich Sverchkov (1817-1898), applied with the date '1851', the reverse later engraved with three coats-of-arms within a cartouche and below an earl's coronet, fully marked , contained in a two door oak case applied with a brass plaque inscribed 'HEIRLOOMS GEORGE STEVENS EARL OF STAFFORD NO. 14', the inside of each door applied with a label, each printed with the Royal coat-of-arms, R. & S. Garrard and Co. and with details of their Royal warrant, one further inscribed in an unknown hand 'Chest No. 14 A large chased silver Font of Cistern with Group of Wolves attacking travellers' 32¾ in. (83 cm.) high 35½ in. (90 cm.) maximum width 915 oz. (28,466 gr.) The inscription reads 'Ludorum Ascotiensium Memor Quibus Ipse Interfuisset Reginae Victoriae Hospes Mens Jun MDCCCXLIV Solenne Certaminis Equestris Praemium Instituit Nicolaus Totius Russiae Imperator' which translates as 'Nicholas Emperor of all Russia, established a prize for an equestrian contest, remembering Ascot races, at which he himself had been present as a guest of Queen Victoria in June 1844.' The coats-of arms are those of Byng for George Stevens Byng, 2 n d Earl of Strafford (1806-1886) who succeeded his father in 1860, flanked by Paget and Cavendish for his two wives. The shield on the dexter of the Byng coat is for his first wife Lady Agnes Paget, 5 t h daughter of the 1 s t Marquess of Anglesey whom he married in 1829 and died 1845. The shield on the sinister side is for his second wife Harriet Elizabeth, younger daughter of Charles Compton Cavendish, later Baron Chesham of Chesham, Co. Bucks, whom he married in 1848.
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