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MARK OF THOMAS PITTS, LONDON, 1770
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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT EPERGNE
MARK OF THOMAS PITTS, LONDON, 1770
The spreading shaped-square frame pierced with trailing flowers and scrolls, with four scroll branches terminating in circular baskets, and four branches above with oval baskets, all pierced and engraved with crests, the central boat-shaped basket engraved with coat-of-arms and motto scroll and later engraved with monogram beneath a marquess' coronet, the central basket and oval dishes with later glass liners, marked on rim of base, under baskets and branches, engraved the central basket with scratchweight '156'
20.1/4 in. (51.3 cm.) high; 23 in. (58.4 cm.) wide; 21.3/4 in. (52.7 cm.) deep
155 oz. 18 dwt. (4,850 gr.)
The arms are those of Selby impaling another, probably Tuite.
MARK OF THOMAS PITTS, LONDON, 1770
The spreading shaped-square frame pierced with trailing flowers and scrolls, with four scroll branches terminating in circular baskets, and four branches above with oval baskets, all pierced and engraved with crests, the central boat-shaped basket engraved with coat-of-arms and motto scroll and later engraved with monogram beneath a marquess' coronet, the central basket and oval dishes with later glass liners, marked on rim of base, under baskets and branches, engraved the central basket with scratchweight '156'
20.1/4 in. (51.3 cm.) high; 23 in. (58.4 cm.) wide; 21.3/4 in. (52.7 cm.) deep
155 oz. 18 dwt. (4,850 gr.)
The arms are those of Selby impaling another, probably Tuite.
Literature
Inventory of Londonderry Plate, Garrard & Co., 1923, ‘Silver Gilt’, p. 16, as dating from 1770.
Wynyard Park inventory of silver and plate, 1949, p. 8, as made by ‘Thomas Powell (?), 1770’
Wynyard Park, inventory, 1956, p. 172, as made by ‘Thomas Powell (?), 1770’.
Wynyard Park inventory of silver and plate, 1949, p. 8, as made by ‘Thomas Powell (?), 1770’
Wynyard Park, inventory, 1956, p. 172, as made by ‘Thomas Powell (?), 1770’.
Exhibited
Stockton-on-Tees, Preston Hall Museum & Art Gallery, Catalogue of Old Silver, Lent by the Most Hon. the Marquis of Londonderry, D.L., J.P., 28 May - 5 September 1955, p. 6, no. 8, case 3.
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Katharine Cooke
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