JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 1 December 2026 / 10:00 am start
A George IV Irish silver three piece tea service,
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Lot Details
ornately floral embossed, floral sculpted finial, the handles figured with a gentleman's head to the thumbpiece. Raised on lions paw feet. Crested with a Bishops mitre, Dublin 1822 by Edward Power. Retailer's mark for Law. 1620gms. Provenance: A letter written from Stisted Rectory, Essex, dated September 6th, 1869, by the prominent clergyman Reverend Charles Forster. The letter documents that the service was an official estate bequest from Edward Smith-Stanley, the 14th Earl of Derby (three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom), to his family's trusted Housemaster, Reverend James Sell. 1945 (Back of Letter): A handwritten, signed annotation dated July 19th, 1945, by the celebrated English author E. M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster), who was the grandson of Reverend Charles Forster. Writing as ‘Morgan’, he explicitly details the history of the set and passes the heirloom down to our vendor's grandfather, Charles Inglis Fairfax Forster. .
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