Marks Antiques
Mayfair, London
A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED ENGRAVED GLASS CLARET JUGS
JOHN W. FIGG
LONDON, 1863
The beaded circular base, girdle and neck mounts with applied beaded borders, further chased and applied with fruit, strapwork and satyr masks, scroll handles, the hinged lids applied with rampant lion thumbpieces each with a shield engraved with the crest of the recipient, the interior of the lids inscribed, the glass bodies with engraved star motifs
Height 10 ¾ in, 27.3 cm, stamped respectively: '4900' and '4901', in fitted oak box with brass fittings (including plate engraved: 'Dr. BURROWS, / 18, Cavendish Square') and blue baize lined interior, with engraved brass and paper retailer's labels for R. & S. Garrard & Co, goldsmiths & jewellers, 25 Haymarket.
John Wilmin Figg
retailed by R. & S. Garrard & Co
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The inscriptions read: 'Presented / to Dr. Burrows, / by / his sincere and obliged friend / Charlotte N. Brace / March 1864.'
Charlotte Newman Brace, a daughter of George Brace and his wife Charlotte Catherine, was christened at St. Clement Danes, Westminster, London, on 1 July 1829. The 1881 Census records her as unmarried, living at 23 Henrietta Street on the corner of Cavendish Square, London.
The recipient, Dr. Burrows refers to one of Queen Victoria's physicians, Sir George Burrows, Bt., M.D. of 18 Cavendish Square, London. He was born in 1801, educated at Cambridge University and was elected President of the Royal College of Physicians for the year 1871. He was married in 1834 to Ellinor Abernethy (d. 1882), by whom he had three sons and a daughter. Sir George died on 12 December 1887, leaving a fortune of £104,628.