A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER

MARK OF ABRAHAM PORTAL, LONDON, 1761

Details

A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER
MARK OF ABRAHAM PORTAL, LONDON, 1761
Baluster shaped, on gadrooned pedestal foot, with two leaf-capped scroll handles, engraved at the rim with a band of scrolling foliage on a matted ground, the domed cover with spiral cast finial, engraved with a crest below a baron's coronet, the body engraved with a full coat of arms within foliate and drapery mantling, the foot with scratchweight No. 2, 57"11
14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) high
55 oz. (1,712 gr.) (2)

Provenance

Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood (1719-1790) and by descent to his cousin Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (1735-1820) and by descent at Harewood House, Yorkshire.

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of Lascelles impaling Colman for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron of Harwood (1719-1795) and his second wife Jane (d.1813), daughter of William Colman, of Garnbay, Devon and widow of Sir John Fleming, 1st and last Bt., whom he married in 1770.

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