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MAKER'S MARK OF LEWIS HERNE & FRANCIS BUTTY, LONDON, 1764
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A GEORGE III SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER
Maker's mark of Lewis Herne & Francis Butty, London, 1764
Of undulating oval form on four ball-and-claw feet headed by foliage and scrolls, with wavy gadrooned rim and two floral-capped scroll bracket handles, the domed gadrooned cover surmounted by a leaf-clad reeded ring handle, one side of body engraved with a coat-of-arms within foliate mantling, the other side and cover with a crest, marked under base and on cover bezel
16in. (40.7cm.) long over handles; 88oz. (2743gr.)
Maker's mark of Lewis Herne & Francis Butty, London, 1764
Of undulating oval form on four ball-and-claw feet headed by foliage and scrolls, with wavy gadrooned rim and two floral-capped scroll bracket handles, the domed gadrooned cover surmounted by a leaf-clad reeded ring handle, one side of body engraved with a coat-of-arms within foliate mantling, the other side and cover with a crest, marked under base and on cover bezel
16in. (40.7cm.) long over handles; 88oz. (2743gr.)