© National Museum of Scotland
Wine cooler
Artist: Paul de Lamerie (1688 - 1751)
Location: National Museum of Scotland
Date: 1727 - 1728
Materials: silver
Dimensions: 26 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £70,000 (Total: £375,000)
Vendor: Sotheby's
Review number: 3537 (1990)
Export Stopped
Provenance:
Royal Jewel House, London; Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.
Description:
One of a pair of wine coolers or ice pails commissioned by George II as part of the ambassadorial silver of Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. Unusually heavy, elaborate in decoration and with early figurative chasing. Britannia hallmark 1727-8.
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