STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
Property of a Lady
A GEORGE III SILVER TWO-HANDLED TRAY, WILLIAM BENNETT, LONDON, 1808
Auction Closed
October 25, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Lady
A GEORGE III SILVER TWO-HANDLED TRAY, WILLIAM BENNETT, LONDON, 1808
with gadroon rim with grapevine-flanked shells at intervals, grapevine handles, center engraved with arms, motto Erectus non Elatus, and crest, on four panel feet applied with palms
marked on base
190 oz
5909 g
length over handles 28 ⅛ in.
71.5 cm
The arms are those of Beaumont impaling Wilkes for Sir George Howland Beaumont, 7th bart., D.C.L., F.S.A., MP for Beeralston 1790-96, b. 1753, and his wife Margaret, daughter of John Willes of Astrop, co. Northampton, and granddaughter of Lord Chief Justice Willes. Sir George died without issue in 1827.