A FINE GEORGE II WAISTED SNUFFERS TRAY AND A MATCHING PAIR OF SNUFFERS, the tray on four shell feet and with leaf-capped and shell quilted scroll handle, the snuffers with leaf supports and leaf-capped bax, each applied with guilloche and rosette borders and engraved with a coat-of-arms, by James Shruder, 1745, the stand engraved with scratch weight 12=15, the snuffers 5=11

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A FINE GEORGE II WAISTED SNUFFERS TRAY AND A MATCHING PAIR OF SNUFFERS, the tray on four shell feet and with leaf-capped and shell quilted scroll handle, the snuffers with leaf supports and leaf-capped bax, each applied with guilloche and rosette borders and engraved with a coat-of-arms, by James Shruder, 1745, the stand engraved with scratch weight 12=15, the snuffers 5=11
length of tray 7¾in. (20cm.) long
(18ozs.)

The arms are those Booth for George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (2)

Provenance

George, 2nd Earl of Warrington, and thence by descent to Catherine, Lady Grey and Sir John Foley-Grey, Bt., sold Christie's, 20th April 1921, lot 6 (#26 to S.M. Harris)

Anon. sale, Christie's, 28th March 1962, lot 138 (#600 to Tessier)

Literature

2nd Earl of Warrington, The Particulars of My Plate and its Weights, 1750, p. 17
Candlesticks oz. dt. oz. dt.

1 large pair 30 10
chased work 29 5 } 59 15

Pair sockets 2 11½
2 19½ } 5 5
the snuffer - - 5 11
the snuff pan - - 12 15
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Total 83 6

Lot Essay

A snuffer tray engraved with the same arms ans also included in the Foley Grey sale, lot 5, was recently sold again at Christie's, the property of the Late Madame Gautret Goldsmith, 22nd May 1991, lot 271. In The Particulars of My Plate and Its Weights, p. 6, Warrington's manuscript inventory inventory of 1750, at least 16 pairs of snuffers and trays are recorded.

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