© British Museum
A pair of Ice Pails
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 1983
- Dimensions
- 26.7 x 21.9 cm (20 cm at foot)
- Vendor
- Earl Spencer
Two cylindrical ice pails made of 22 carat gold, with two lion masks and hinged handles.
Not hall-marked and with no letter date. Total weight of two pails 365 oz 6 dwts.
Provenance
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough; the Hon John Spencer by 1744; by descent Earls Spencer at Althorp.