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the first by Samuel Herbert, London 1749, the fluted oval bowl, 8.5cm wide including the pouring lip and 3cm deep, decorated with repoussé images of vines, leaves and grapes around the crest of William Stuart, the split and double scrolled mount to a simple conical tubular socket holding the turned wooden handle, overall length 39cm; the second with rubbed maker's mark, London 1752, in the same style, with a plain fluted oval bowl, 9cm wide including the pouring lip and 3cm deep, crested to the side, overall length 37cm (2)

Footnote: William Stuart (1798 - 1874), of Tempsford Hall in Bedfordshire and Aldenham Abbey in Hertfordshire, was the eldest son of William Stuart, Archbishop of Armagh and Sophia Margaret Juliana, daughter of Thomas Penn of Stoke Poges, and was the grandson of John, 3rd Earl of Bute. Stuart was a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant. He married, on 8 August 1821, Henrietta Maria Sarah, the eldest daughter of Admiral Sir Charles Morice Pole, Baronet. She died 26 July 1853, and he married, again, on 31 August 1854, Georgina Adelaide Forester.

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