A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TAZZA
MARK OF BENJAMIN SMITH LONDON, 1807
A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TAZZA MARK OF BENJAMIN SMITH LONDON, 1807 Circular, the border applied with grapevines, engraved with a band of foliate scrolls and crests, the centre with a coat-of-arms, on spreading foot, marked on foot and stamped 'RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL REGIS ET WALLIæ LONDINI FECERUNT' 12 in. (30.5 cm.) 59 oz. 6 dwt. (1,844 gr.) The arms are those of Drummond quartering a coat-of-augmentation for John Drummond (1766-1833), second son of John Drummond (1723-1774) of Charing Cross and his wife Charlotte (d.1793), daughter of Lord William Beauclerk and and heiress to her newphew, the 4th Duke of St. Albans. John Drummond was granted the special coat-of-augmentation on 17 May 1788 on the occasion of him acting as one of Admiral George, 1st Baron Rodney's Esquires at the latter's installation as a Knight of the Bath in 1788. He first wife was Hester (d. 1802), daughter of Thomas Cholmondeley, of Vale Royal, sister of 1st Baron Delamere, whom he married in 1789. He married secondly Barbara (d. 1832), Maid of Honour to Queen Charlotte, daughter of Charles Chester, of Chicheley, co. Buckingham, in 1806 and this tazza was no doubt commissioned to celebrate the marriage.
A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TAZZA
MARK OF BENJAMIN SMITH LONDON, 1807
A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TAZZA MARK OF BENJAMIN SMITH LONDON, 1807 Circular, the border applied with grapevines, engraved with a band of foliate scrolls and crests, the centre with a coat-of-arms, on spreading foot, marked on foot and stamped 'RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL REGIS ET WALLIæ LONDINI FECERUNT' 12 in. (30.5 cm.) 59 oz. 6 dwt. (1,844 gr.) The arms are those of Drummond quartering a coat-of-augmentation for John Drummond (1766-1833), second son of John Drummond (1723-1774) of Charing Cross and his wife Charlotte (d.1793), daughter of Lord William Beauclerk and and heiress to her newphew, the 4th Duke of St. Albans. John Drummond was granted the special coat-of-augmentation on 17 May 1788 on the occasion of him acting as one of Admiral George, 1st Baron Rodney's Esquires at the latter's installation as a Knight of the Bath in 1788. He first wife was Hester (d. 1802), daughter of Thomas Cholmondeley, of Vale Royal, sister of 1st Baron Delamere, whom he married in 1789. He married secondly Barbara (d. 1832), Maid of Honour to Queen Charlotte, daughter of Charles Chester, of Chicheley, co. Buckingham, in 1806 and this tazza was no doubt commissioned to celebrate the marriage.
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