Lot 22: A PAIR OF WILLIAM III SILVER EWERS, PIERRE HARACHE, LONDON,  1700 |

on gadroon bordered and knopped circular bases, the helmet-shaped bodies each engraved with a coat-of-arms, motto and supporters below an earl’s coronet, further applied plain girdles and strapwork below masks of Diana The Huntress, and shells at the lip, bold caryatid handles, the undersides with scratch weights ’70-8’ and ’72-5’

31.1cm., 12 ¼ in. high

Minor wear commensurate with age, nicks and surface scratches etc. very minor misshaping to bases, both very slightly wobbly on flat surface. marks good and clear, engraving good and clear. Overall condition excellent. Heavy in hand.
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Philip Stanhope, 2 ^nd Earl of Chesterfield (1634-1714) and thence by descent to
Henry George Herbert, 6 ^th Earl of Carnarvon (1898-1987) of Highclere Castle, Hampshire;
Sold from the Highclere Castle Collection, Sotheby’s London, 4 February 1988, lot 76;
Private Collection.