The Property of A FAMILY SETTLEMENT
A PAIR OF GEORGE III IRISH SILVER BASKETS, COVERS AND STANDS
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III IRISH SILVER BASKETS, COVERS AND STANDS
MAKER'S MARK OF WILLIAM HOMER, DUBLIN, 1770
The shaped-oval stands with gadrooned and foliate scroll border, the centre later engraved with a coat-of-arms within frond and anthemion cartouche, the baskets and covers pierced and chased with latticework and floral garlands, with beaded borders, the detachable covers with pomegranate finial, marked on stands, baskets and covers, with blue glass liners
the stands 7¾in. (19.8cm.) long
6¼in. (15.8cm.) high overall
47ozs. (1,475grs.)
The arms are those of Pollock impaling Clark for Arthur Hill Cornwallis Pollock of Mountainstown (1785-1846), and his wife Jessy, second daughter of G. Clark of West Hatch Essex, whom he married in 1811. Pollock was High Sheriff of Co. Meath in 1809. (2)
MAKER'S MARK OF WILLIAM HOMER, DUBLIN, 1770
The shaped-oval stands with gadrooned and foliate scroll border, the centre later engraved with a coat-of-arms within frond and anthemion cartouche, the baskets and covers pierced and chased with latticework and floral garlands, with beaded borders, the detachable covers with pomegranate finial, marked on stands, baskets and covers, with blue glass liners
the stands 7¾in. (19.8cm.) long
6¼in. (15.8cm.) high overall
47ozs. (1,475grs.)
The arms are those of Pollock impaling Clark for Arthur Hill Cornwallis Pollock of Mountainstown (1785-1846), and his wife Jessy, second daughter of G. Clark of West Hatch Essex, whom he married in 1811. Pollock was High Sheriff of Co. Meath in 1809. (2)
Provenance
J. H.Fitzhenry Esq., sold Christie's, 17 November 1913, lot 95, (baskets and covers only), (£625 to S. J. Phillips)