Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Lots 56 to 65
The Silver Collection of Dr Andrew J Rainey
Andrew Rainey's life-long passion for collecting silver began at the start of his medical career in Oxford. As a true epicure, his collecting was single minded: entertainment through eating.
He became a consultant histopathologist of increasing repute at The Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton, and this success was matched by the increasing grandeur of picnic-luncheons and dinners. At these, each piece of Georgian and Regency silver was used exactly as originally intended, and tureen after tureen was purchased to serve ever more elaborate dishes and sauces.
Dr Rainey died in May 2022. It is hoped that these treasured items will impart the same sense of joie de vivre to their new owners.
The second part of the collection will feature in our Knightsbridge galleries in April 2023
The Silver Collection of Dr Andrew J Rainey
Andrew Rainey's life-long passion for collecting silver began at the start of his medical career in Oxford. As a true epicure, his collecting was single minded: entertainment through eating.
He became a consultant histopathologist of increasing repute at The Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton, and this success was matched by the increasing grandeur of picnic-luncheons and dinners. At these, each piece of Georgian and Regency silver was used exactly as originally intended, and tureen after tureen was purchased to serve ever more elaborate dishes and sauces.
Dr Rainey died in May 2022. It is hoped that these treasured items will impart the same sense of joie de vivre to their new owners.
The second part of the collection will feature in our Knightsbridge galleries in April 2023
Lot 56
An impressive George IV silver meat dish and cover with mazarine Robert Garrard, London, base 1823, the cover and mazarine 1827
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29 November 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,737.50 inc. premium
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An impressive George IV silver meat dish and cover with mazarine
Robert Garrard, London, base 1823, the cover and mazarine 1827
Shaped-oval base with gadroon rim, with a matching lift-off shaped double-domed cover, with gadroon band and surmounted above with an ornate cast and chased finial of a lion's head issuing from a ducal coronet, engraved armorial to either side for John William WARD (1781-1833), a moulded lower girdle beneath with matching moulded rim, the removable pierced mazarine resting in the base centred with a matching engraved armorial, the platter beneath also with matching engraved armorials to each side of the border, length 45.2cm, weight excluding finial 158.5oz.
Shaped-oval base with gadroon rim, with a matching lift-off shaped double-domed cover, with gadroon band and surmounted above with an ornate cast and chased finial of a lion's head issuing from a ducal coronet, engraved armorial to either side for John William WARD (1781-1833), a moulded lower girdle beneath with matching moulded rim, the removable pierced mazarine resting in the base centred with a matching engraved armorial, the platter beneath also with matching engraved armorials to each side of the border, length 45.2cm, weight excluding finial 158.5oz.
Footnotes
The armorial engraving represents the full armorial of John William WARD (1781-1833) of Himley Hall near Wolverhampton Staffordshire, who from 1823-7 was the 4th Viscount Dudley in Worcestershire and Ward in Birmingham and was in 1827 created 1st Earl Dudley. He was the son of William WARD (1750-1823) 3rd Viscount of Dudley and Ward by Julia BOSVILLE (1750-1833) daughter of Godfrey BOSVILLE of Gunthwaite Yorkshire. He was unmarried. Before entering the House of Lords in 1823 John William WARD, politician and statesman served as MP for Downton 1802-3, Worcestershire 1803-6, Petersfield 1806-7, Wareham 1807-12, Ilchester 1812-8 and Bossiney 1819-23.
In 1827 Ward was appointed Foreign Secretary under George Canning, a post he held also under Lord Goderich and the Duke of Wellington. Later that year he was created Earl of Dudley.
Ward died at Norwood. His earldom and viscountcy became extinct, but the barony passed to his second cousin, William Humble Ward (1781-1835). The bulk of his great fortune went to his heir's son, William Ward (1817-1885), who was created Earl of Dudley on 17 February 1860.
The Silver Collection of Dr Andrew J Rainey
Andrew Rainey's life-long passion for collecting silver began at the start of his medical career in Oxford. As a true epicure, his collecting was single minded: entertainment through eating.
He became a consultant histopathologist of increasing repute at The Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton, and this success was matched by the increasing grandeur of picnic-luncheons and dinners. At these, each piece of Georgian and Regency silver was used exactly as originally intended, and tureen after tureen was purchased to serve ever more elaborate dishes and sauces.
Dr Rainey died in May 2022. It is hoped that these treasured items will impart the same sense of joie de vivre to their new owners.
Saleroom notices
Please not the removable finial is unmarked. It does have a number '2' stamped on the underside.
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