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Description The Provender Hunt Decanter
A glass decanter with a figural silver stopper
Gerald Benney, London
1965
the late 18th century cut-glass decanter,?oviform, engraved with a monogram PH,?the silver stopper modelled as the Knatchbull crest,?an ounce statant argent,?spotted sable,?on a textured knob, the stand formed as a coronet, inscribed?This bottle belonged to Sir Edward Knatchbull 8th Bt. who kept a pack of hounds at Provender from 1786-90. P.H.?stands for Provender Hunt
44cm. high?
1081gr, 34oz 15dwt excluding bottle
Condition Report Small dent to flange of stopper, general condition good, good marks, no apparent breaks or cracks to glass, minor scratches only.
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Provenance Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Bt,? (1758-1819)
John, 7th Baron Brabourne (1924-2005);
By whom gifted to his wife The Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Notes Provender House in Kent was inherited by the Knatchbull family from the 8th Baronet's first wife Mary Huggesen, who he married in 1780. Mary's sister Dorothea?after whom the famous rose,?Rosa Banksia is named, married the botanist Sir Joseph Banks in 1779.