A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SOUP-TUREENS AND COVERS MARK OF WILLIAM CRIPPS LONDON, 1755 Each shaped oval and on four cast lion's mask and paw feet, with scroll handles, the detachable cover with loop handle, the cover and base each engraved twice with a coat-of-arms below a viscount's coronet, marked underneath and on cover bezel, further engraved underneath with scratch weights '75=3' and '74=8' 14 ¾ in. (37.5 cm.) wide 149 oz. 6 dwt. (4,642 gr.) The arms are those of Yorke with a label of cadency with Grey quartering Lucas and another in pretence, for Philip, Viscount Royston, later 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1720-1796) and his wife Lady Jemima, Marchioness Grey and Baroness Lucas (d. 1797), daughter of the 3rd Earl of Breadalbane (1696-1782), heiress to her maternal grandfather Henry 1st Duke of Kent, whom he married in 1740. Provenance Philip, Viscount Royston, later 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1720-1796) and his wife Lady Jemima, Marchioness Grey and Baroness Lucas (1723-1797), by descent to their daughter Lady Amabel, Dowager Lady Polwarth and suo jure 5th Baroness Lucas (1750-1833), created Countess de Grey in 1816, by inheritance to her nephew Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey (1781-1859), who built Wrest Park in 1834-39, by descent to his daughter, Lady Anne Florence de Grey, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell, who married George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper (1806-1856) in 1833, by descent to their third daughter Lady Adine Eliza Anne Cowper (b.c. 1840-1868), who married Hon. Julian Henry Charles Fane (1827-1870), by descent to their daughter Ethel Anne Priscilla Fane (1867-1952), who married William Henry Grenfell, 1st and last Baron Desborough (1855-1945), by descent to their daughter Hon. Alexandra Imogen Clair, Viscountess Gage (d. 1969), who married Henry, 6th Viscount Gage (1895-1982). The Late the Rt. Hon. Viscountess Gage; Christie's, London, 24 November 1971, lot 7.
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SOUP-TUREENS AND COVERS MARK OF WILLIAM CRIPPS LONDON, 1755 Each shaped oval and on four cast lion's mask and paw feet, with scroll handles, the detachable cover with loop handle, the cover and base each engraved twice with a coat-of-arms below a viscount's coronet, marked underneath and on cover bezel, further engraved underneath with scratch weights '75=3' and '74=8' 14 ¾ in. (37.5 cm.) wide 149 oz. 6 dwt. (4,642 gr.) The arms are those of Yorke with a label of cadency with Grey quartering Lucas and another in pretence, for Philip, Viscount Royston, later 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1720-1796) and his wife Lady Jemima, Marchioness Grey and Baroness Lucas (d. 1797), daughter of the 3rd Earl of Breadalbane (1696-1782), heiress to her maternal grandfather Henry 1st Duke of Kent, whom he married in 1740. Provenance Philip, Viscount Royston, later 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1720-1796) and his wife Lady Jemima, Marchioness Grey and Baroness Lucas (1723-1797), by descent to their daughter Lady Amabel, Dowager Lady Polwarth and suo jure 5th Baroness Lucas (1750-1833), created Countess de Grey in 1816, by inheritance to her nephew Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey (1781-1859), who built Wrest Park in 1834-39, by descent to his daughter, Lady Anne Florence de Grey, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell, who married George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper (1806-1856) in 1833, by descent to their third daughter Lady Adine Eliza Anne Cowper (b.c. 1840-1868), who married Hon. Julian Henry Charles Fane (1827-1870), by descent to their daughter Ethel Anne Priscilla Fane (1867-1952), who married William Henry Grenfell, 1st and last Baron Desborough (1855-1945), by descent to their daughter Hon. Alexandra Imogen Clair, Viscountess Gage (d. 1969), who married Henry, 6th Viscount Gage (1895-1982). The Late the Rt. Hon. Viscountess Gage; Christie's, London, 24 November 1971, lot 7.
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