A PAIR OF WORCESTER ARMORIAL HANDLES

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A PAIR OF WORCESTER ARMORIAL HANDLES
Circa 1760

Of pistol form, one side painted with a coat-of-arms within a puce rococo scroll cartouche, the reverses with the crest of a lion rampant and with trailing flower-sprays and scattered flowers in purple camaieu, with silver blade and three-tined fork (slight rubbing to enamels)
3 3/4in. (9.5cm.) and 3 1/4in. (8.3cm.) long

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來源

Major-General F.G. Beaumont-Nesbitt, C.V.O., C.B.E., M.C., sale Sotheby's, 20 February 1951, lot 151 (£600 to J.A. Lewis)
Estate of Arthemise Redpath, sale Sotheby's New York, 9 October 1990, lot 75 (part)

拍品專文

The arms are those of Stoughton of Ballyhorgan, Co. Kerry

Cf. H. Rissik Marshall, op. cit., pl. 35, no. 769 and a pair exhibited by Simon Spero (1991), no. 23