A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT WARWICK VASE

MARK OF JAMES CHARLES EDINGTON, LONDON, 1837, RETAILED BY GREEN, WARD AND GREEN

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A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT WARWICK VASE
MARK OF JAMES CHARLES EDINGTON, LONDON, 1837, RETAILED BY GREEN, WARD AND GREEN
Realistically modelled and on a square plinth, engraved on one side with a coat-of-arms and on the other with an inscription, on a white marble plinth, applied on one side with a plaque cast and chased with a scene of two soldiers at rest, within anthemion border, marked near handle and on plaque, the base further stamped 'Green Ward Green'
18½ in. (47 cm.) wide over handles
226 oz. 6 dwt. (7,038 gr.)
The arms are those of Salmond impaling Constable for Major General James Salmond (1766-1837) and his second wife Rachel Mary Ann Constable who he married in 1808.

The inscription reads 'Presented by the Court of Directors of the East India Company to Major General James Salmond upon his Retirement from the office of Military Secretary in testimony of their sense of the Great Ability, Unwearied Zeal, and Inflexible Intergrity displayed by him during a very long career of valuable services in India and in England, 1837'

Provenance

Major-General James Hanson Salmond (1766-1837).

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Lot Essay

Major-General James Hanson Salmond (1766-1837) entered the army in 1796. He served in the East India Company's Forces and rose to the rank of Major-General just before his retirement in 1837 when he was presented with the present lot. He sadly died in York the same year at the age of 71. He was Military Secretary of the East India Company and was author of a work of the Anglo-Mysore wars of the 18th century.

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