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Egg-cup frame & 10 egg cups Egg-cup frame & 10 egg cups
© Dunham Massey

Egg-cup frame & 10 egg cups

Peter Archambo I

Art Funded
1998
Vendor
Titus Kendall
Triangular frame on three scroll and hoof feet with ten egg-cups.

Provenance

Made for George Booth, Earl of Warrington thence by descent . Sold at Christie's in 1921

Silver

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Dunham Massey

Dunham Massey, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 4SJ
0161 941 1025
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Opening times

House
March - November
11am - 5pm
Last entry 1 hour before closing

Garden
Daily
10.30am - 4/5pm (or dusk if earlier)
Last entry 30 minutes before closing

Art we’ve helped buy at Dunham Massey

The Dunham Massey Sconces
 Acquired 1997
Portrait of a Lady of Title
 Acquired 2011
Ewer
 Acquired 2003
Egg-cup frame & 10 egg cups
 Acquired 1998

A helmet-shaped George II silver ewer from the Warrington plate is believed to have been made by David Willaume II and is engraved with George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington's armorials.

Two sconces from a set of six, one depicting Diana and Actaeon, the other Prometheus bound were commissioned by Lord Warrington for the Great Bedchamber at Dunham Massey.

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