Lot 214
  • 214

A large George I silver salver on foot, London, 1716

Estimate
4,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on salver and foot, maker's mark not clear
  • silver
  • diameter 14 3/4 in.
  • 37.4 cm
applied bold gadroon rim, engraved with arms in a lozenge under earl's coronet, screw on pedestal foot with eight-petal cut-card mount

Provenance

Collection of Colonel W. H. Hippisley
Sotheby’s, London,  May 25, 1960, lot 14, where the maker is listed as Thomas Farren

Condition

marks rubbed, arms refreshed, otherwise good
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Catalogue Note

The arms in a lozenge are those of Finch with Nourse in pretense for Sarah, Countess of Winchilsea. She was daughter of Henry Nourse of Woodlands, Wiltshire and widow of Charles Finch, Earl of Winchilsea, Viscount Maidstone and Baron Fitzherbert of Eastwell, who died in 1712. She remarried after 1730 as his second wife William Rollinson of Chadlington, Oxfordshire. The countess died in 1735.