THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A FINE GEORGE III EPERGNE, on four shell and scroll feet and with foliate pierced apron, fluted stem and gadrooned borders, fitted with eight detachable leaf-capped scroll branches, each terminating in partly-fluted detachable dish, four with pierced rim and scroll bracket handles, the central detachable boat-shaped basket similarly pierced and with shell handles, engraved with a coat-of-arms within a foliage cartouche, the dishes with a crest, by Thomas Pitts, 1771, in fitted wood box
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A FINE GEORGE III EPERGNE, on four shell and scroll feet and with foliate pierced apron, fluted stem and gadrooned borders, fitted with eight detachable leaf-capped scroll branches, each terminating in partly-fluted detachable dish, four with pierced rim and scroll bracket handles, the central detachable boat-shaped basket similarly pierced and with shell handles, engraved with a coat-of-arms within a foliage cartouche, the dishes with a crest, by Thomas Pitts, 1771, in fitted wood box
14in. (35.5cm.) high
(126ozs.)
The arms are those of Pleydell with Luttrell in pretence, for Edmund-Morton Pleydell Esq. (d.1794), of Milbourne, co.Dorset and his wife Anne, only daughter on Francis Luttrell Esq., of Ven, co. Somerset
14in. (35.5cm.) high
(126ozs.)
The arms are those of Pleydell with Luttrell in pretence, for Edmund-Morton Pleydell Esq. (d.1794), of Milbourne, co.Dorset and his wife Anne, only daughter on Francis Luttrell Esq., of Ven, co. Somerset