A George I Irish silver beer jug by Alexander Sinclair, Dublin 1715 image 1

Lot 53

A George I Irish silver beer jug
by Alexander Sinclair, Dublin 1715

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25 October 2017, 14:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £6,875 inc. premium

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A George I Irish silver beer jug

by Alexander Sinclair, Dublin 1715
With a rounded body and scroll handle, engraved with the shield of Stephen Fitz-Arthur Lynch, height 19cm, weight 24oz.

Footnotes

The shield recorded in the mid-16th century for Stephen Fitz-Arthur Lynch, of an Anglo-Norman family and one of the Merchant Tribes of Galway. He was Mayor of Galway and ancestor of Sir Henry Lynch, MP, created a baronet in 1622.

Sir Henry was succeeded in 1691 by Sir Robuck [Roebuck] Lynch, 4th Bt of Castlecarra, co. Mayo, an estate which his father, a lawyer and Baron of the Exchequer had been granted with 6400 acres in 1678 before fleeing to France after the Glorious Revolution.

The 6th baronet adopted the family surname Lynch-Blosse following his 1749 marriage to the heiress of Tobias Blosse of Suffolk.

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