19th Mar, 2024 11:00
A large George IV sterling silver spirit flask, London 1828 by Mary Ann and Charles Reilly
Of tapering rounded form with a bulbous screw cap, cork interior. The front engraved with a crest of a lion rampant above the name John Bayley Esq, the reverse engraved with the name Nymph. Gilt neck interior. Fully marked to the lower section, the screw cap apparently unmarked.
Height – 21 cm / 8.25 inches
Weight – 505 grams / 16.24 ozt
Capacity – 950 ml
For Sir John Edward George Bayley, 2nd Baronet (1793-1871)
The son of Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet (1763-1841), who in May 1808 was made a judge of the King's Bench and was knighted on the 11th of the same month. He was made a baronet of Bedford square on the 15th March 1834. John 2nd Bt was Bayley was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1835 and went then to the Northern Circuit. The oil painting of 1836 “Sir John Bayley's cutter yacht Nymph flying the ensign of the Royal Yacht Squadron in Scottish waters” by John Christian Schetky (Edinburgh 1778-1874) was sold Christie’s South Kensington, 24 Nov 2010, lot 35 (£22,500 incl. prem). Where noted “Nymph was a cruising cutter of 31 feet originally owned by Sir Arthur Paget, one of the founding fathers of the Royal Yacht Squadron, between 1830 and 1833. Selling her to Sir John Bayley, Bt., in 1834, her second owner kept her until 1850 when he replaced her with a larger cutter of the same name.”
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