Lot 43
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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TEAPOT, TEA POT STAND AND TEA-CADDY FROM BECKFORD'S COMING-OF-AGE SERVICE
A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TEAPOT, TEA POT STAND AND TEA-CADDY FROM BECKFORD'S COMING-OF-AGE SERVICE
A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TEAPOT, TEA POT STAND AND TEA-CADDY FROM BECKFORD'S COMING-OF-AGE SERVICE
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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TEAPOT, TEA POT STAND AND TEA-CADDY FROM BECKFORD'S COMING-OF-AGE SERVICE
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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TEAPOT, TEA POT STAND AND TEA-CADDY FROM BECKFORD'S COMING-OF-AGE SERVICE

MARK OF AARON LESTOURGEON, LONDON, 1781, THE STAND WITH MARK OF DANIEL SMITH AND ROBERT SHARP

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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TEAPOT, TEA POT STAND AND TEA-CADDY FROM BECKFORD'S COMING-OF-AGE SERVICE
MARK OF AARON LESTOURGEON, LONDON, 1781, THE STAND WITH MARK OF DANIEL SMITH AND ROBERT SHARP
Each oval and with beaded borders, the teapot with wood handle and finial, the teapot and caddy engraved with a coat-of-arms within a drapery mantling, the stand on three ball feet, engraved with a crest, marked underneath and in cover
the stand 6 1⁄8 in. (15.5 cm.) long
gross weight 40 oz. 1 dwt. (1,246 gr.)
The arms are those of Beckford quartering Hamilton and Arran for William Beckford (1759-1844) of Fonthill Splendens, Wiltshire.
Provenance
William Beckford (1760-1844), of Fonthill Splendens, later Fonthill Abbey and then Lansdown Tower, Bath, by descent to his daughter,
Susanna Euphemia, Duchess of Hamilton (1786-1858) wife of Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767-1852), then by descent to,
Angus Alan Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton and 12th Duke of Brandon (1938-2010),
His Grace The Duke of Hamilton and Brandon; Sotheby's, London, 14 July 1988, lot 136.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 April 1996, lot 268.
An Exceptional Eye, A Private British Collection; Sotheby's, London, 14 July 2010, lot 140.
Purchased from Koopman Rare Art, London, July 2010.
Literature
M. Snodin and M. Baker, The Burlington Magazine, 'William Beckford's Silver II', vol. 122, no. 933, December, 1980, p. 825, the teapot A1. Ostergard, ed., William Beckford 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001, p. 417, n. 2.

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Lot Essay

This elegant teapot, stand and caddy, in the retrained neo-classical style typical of the 1780s, is part of a large commission of plate which celebrated Beckford's coming of age in 1781. Surviving works include silver-gilt candlesticks by John Scofield of Adam design in the Brodick Castle collection, which also includes a coffee pot, a pair of cruets by Pitts, a pair of salvers, a soup-tureen, entree dishes and other works, all dating from 1781. A pair of teapots also by Lestourgeon, the stands also by Smith and Sharp, are in the collection of the Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery.

The form of the teapot and stand in the Hewat-Jaboor collection is identical to the celebrated gold teapot and stand commissioned by Beckford in 1785 from Daniel Smith and Robert Sharp, now in the collection of the Barber Institute, Birmingham.

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