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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF RICHARD
MELLON SCAIFE
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A PAIR OF PISTOL-HANDLED URNS AND
COVERS
LATE 18TH CENTURY
17 in. (43 cm.) high (4)
$2,000-3,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired from Mallett, London, in 1996.
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AN AMERICAN MARKET VASE AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1735-1796)
With the arms of Giles, incorporating an American fag and the motto ‘Libertas et
patria mea’
11º in. (28.5 cm.) high (2)
$6,000-9,000
James H. Giles of New York, an Artillery lieutenant in the Revolutionary army,
had a bookplate engraved with these arms about 1783, adding the fag and
motto to the arms of his Devonshire antecedents. The bookplate fag showed
only stripes, but the slightly later porcelain shows the full stars and stripes. See
Howard, vol. II, p. 482.
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A PAIR OF AMERICAN MARKET
ARMORIAL PLATES
CIRCA 1780
The arms beneath an earl’s coronet and with
mermaid and savage supporters above the
motto PER MARE PER TERRAS
9 in. (22.8 cm.) diameter (2)
$4,000-6,000
Probably made for William Alexander (d.
1783), Surveyor General of New York and
a Governor of Columbus College, who
claimed descent from Henry, 5th (and last)
Earl of Stirling,
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