The Pleasure of Objects: The Ian & Carolina Irving Collection
The Pleasure of Objects: The Ian & Carolina Irving Collection
Royal: A Set of Eighteen George III Silver-Gilt Dessert Spoons and Eighteen Forks, London, 1804/07/08/09
Auction Closed
January 30, 06:14 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Fiddle & Thread pattern engraved with the Royal Badge and with script initials E A Fs, the spoons by Eley, Fearn and Chawner, 1807/08/09, the forks by Christopher Barker and Thomas W. Barker, 1804, 36 pieces
57 oz., 1772 g
Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (d. 1851)
Probably by descent with the Royal Hanoverian Silver until at least 1924
All engraved with the Royal Badge and with E A Fs for the entailed estate of Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover and Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, 1st Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale K.G. K.P. G.C.B G.C.H. Field Marshall, b. 1771 d. 1851, m. 1815 Frederica Sophia Charlotte Alexandrina, 3rd daughter of Charles Louis Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and widow 1st of Prince Frederick Louis Charles of Prussia and 2nd of Prince Frederick William of Solms-Brunfels. He succeeded to the crown of Hanover and the Duchy of Brunswick on the death of his brother William IV in 1837.
Thomas Wilkes Barker, son of Christopher Barker of Pemberton Row, Gough Square London, silversmith, was apprenticed in 1787 to William Fearn, spoonmaker of Paternoster Row, entered his first mark in partnership with his father as spoonmakers October 1800 at 9 Cross Street, Hatton Garden. He entered further marks, his fifth in 1819.