A Victorian sterling silver table lighter lamp, London 1861 by James Charles Edington

In the Greco-Roman style, the body with a large ring handle. The body with embossed decoration of scallop shells with stylised leaves to the centre with a textured ground. A hinged lid to the oil well with an embossed mask and an ovolo rim. The spout section finely engraved with a quartered coat of arms surmounted by a Ducal coronet and with greyhound supporters, a motto below auspicium melioris ævi, all surmounted by a crest of a on a chapeau, turned up erm., a Lion statant gardant, crowned with a ducal coronet per pale, gorged with a collar, thereon three roses, barbed and seeded. Wick holes through piece. Fully marked underneath and part-marked to lid bezel.

Length – 19.8 cm / 7.75 inches

Weight – 387 grams / 12.44 ozt

The arms are for Beauclerk

For William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans (1840 – 1898), the only son of William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans (1801-1849), and his second wife Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins (1818-1893), daughter of Major General Joseph Gubbins. His father has famously initialled been married to Harriet (née Mellon) Coutts (1777–1837), who was 23 years his elder, while Harriet was the widow of the famously wealthly banker Thomas Coutts (1735-1822).