Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 24th April 2018
Lot 151
A presentation silver-gilt cup and cover
Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £700
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Description
A presentation silver-gilt cup and cover,
by Carrington and Co, London 1911,
tapering circular bowl with matted decoration, on a baluster knopped stem on a raised circular foot, the pull-off cover with a knop finial, engraved with the shield of Winchester College and an armorial inscribed 'Huberto Murray Burge per decem annos Collegii btae mariae Winton ppe Winton informatori ad Espisepatum discedenti amoris ac desideii sui signum poculum hoc d.d.magistri adsistentes XXXIII A.S MCMXI', height 36.5cm, approx. weight 29oz.
Hubert Murray Burge KCV, (1862-1925) was an Anglican priest, headmaster of Winchester College, Bishop of Southwark and Bishop of Oxford. He was educated at Bedford School, Marlborough and University College, Oxford. His first post after graduation was as a Schoolmaster at Wellington College after which he was Fellow and Dean of his old college. He was Headmaster of Repton from 1900 to 1901 and then of Winchester from 1901 to 1911, before his elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of Southwark in 1911.