A GEORGE III SILVER SALVER

Property of A LADY

Details

A GEORGE III SILVER SALVER
MAKER'S MARK OF SEBASTIAN & JAMES CRESPELL, LONDON, 1770

Shaped circular, on four leaf-clad scroll feet, with scroll and acanthus rim, engraved with an earl's armorials against ermine mantling, marked on reverse
25in. (63.5cm.) diameter; 169oz. (5263gr.)

Provenance

Mrs. John W. Christner, Dallas, Texas
The Christner Collection, Christie's, New York, June 7, 1979, lot 307

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Plunkett with those of Wollascot, as borne by Arthur James Plunkett, 7th Earl of Fingall, who was born in 1731. He married Henrietta Maria, only daughter and heiress of William Wollascot, in 1757, and died in 1793.