A pair of George IV silver-mounted glass sugar vases or tea caddies,

A pair of George IV silver-mounted glass sugar vases or tea caddies,
by Michael Starkey, London 1828,
plain vase form, hobnail cut decoration, the flush hinged covers engraved with an armorial and with a gadroon border, on raised circular base, height 14cm. (2)

Provenance: A Private Collection.
Purchased from Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 20 April 2005, lot 680.
The armorial is that of Fuller quartering another impaling Hanning, and another crest. Probably for John Bird Fuller (1801-1872) who married Sophia Hanning (c.1805-1883) on 22 Jun 1829, he was senior partner in Fuller's brewery.