AN IMPORTANT GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TRAY

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AN IMPORTANT GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TRAY
LONDON, 1791, MAKER'S MARK OF JAMES YOUNG

Of oblong form, on four leaf-capped scroll bracket feet, the flaring border chased with quilting and with gadrooned rim, the field finely engraved with a broad band of scrolling foliage and flowerheads tied at the corners to acanthus, the center finely engraved with a Marquess's armorials, the reverse of border applied with four bracket handles, marked on reverse--29 in. (74.5 cm.) long
(296 oz.)

出版

Stanley C. Dixon, English Decorated Trays, 1964, ill. p.13

拍品專文

The arms are those of Hamilton, for John James Hamilton, 9th Earl of Abercorn. Born in 1756, he succeeded to the title in 1789 and died in 1818. This celebrated Earl, who was raised to the rank of Marquess in 1790, 'is stated to have always gone out shooting in his Blue Ribbon' [he was a Knight of the Garter] 'and to have required his housemaids to wear white kid gloves when they made his bed. It is also alleged that having learnt of his second wife's elopement, he sent her a message begging her to take the family coach, as it ought never to be said that Lady Abercorn left her husband's roof in a hack chaise' (G.E. Russell, Collections and Recollections, 1898).