£10,000 - £15,000
A ROYAL CHRISTENING PRESENT:- AN EARLY VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT CUP & COVER, maker John Mortimer & John Samuel Hunt, London, 1839, of part-fluted vase form with bifurcated scroll handles hung with pendent bell-flowers, the waisted neck applied with floral swags, the body with broad matted frieze decorated in high relief with children & playful putti, the lower body applied with foliage, on pedestal foot decorated with repetitive flower-heads & winged cherub masks, the cover similarly decorated below a fluted pedestal surmounted by a finial of an angel with attendant putto and inset pearl, engraved with Queen Victoria's crowned cypher & inscribed Victoria Alexandrina Digby From Her Godmother VR, June 22, 1840, 37cm high. contained in its original leather and silk lined case bearing makers name. 2026gms, 65,16ozs.
Provenance; By family decent. Given by Queen Victoria to her goddaughter Victoria Alexandrina Digby on the occasion of her christening in 1840. Victoria was the daughter of Edward St. Vincent Digby
9th Baron Digby, she married in 1865, and died in Devon at the age of 77 in 1917.
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