THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A GEORGE II SILVER BREAD BASKET
Details
A GEORGE II SILVER BREAD BASKET
maker's mark of Frederick Kandler, London, 1750
Of shaped-oval form and on four shell and wheat-ear feet, the sides pierced with scrolls and latticework, the border cast and applied with bacchanalian masks, vine tendrils and foliate scrolls and with similar swing handle, later engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked unber base - 14¾in. (37.5cm.) wide
67ozs. (2095grs.)
The arms are those of Dunning impaling Cunningham, on a lozenge, for Anne Selby, daughter of William Cunningham of Lainshaw, and widow of Richard Barre Dunning (1782-1823), 2nd and last Baron Asburton of the first creation, whom she married in 1805. The engraving would appear to date between the death of her first husband in 1823 and her second marriage to Ranald George Macdonald in 1826.
maker's mark of Frederick Kandler, London, 1750
Of shaped-oval form and on four shell and wheat-ear feet, the sides pierced with scrolls and latticework, the border cast and applied with bacchanalian masks, vine tendrils and foliate scrolls and with similar swing handle, later engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked unber base - 14¾in. (37.5cm.) wide
67ozs. (2095grs.)
The arms are those of Dunning impaling Cunningham, on a lozenge, for Anne Selby, daughter of William Cunningham of Lainshaw, and widow of Richard Barre Dunning (1782-1823), 2nd and last Baron Asburton of the first creation, whom she married in 1805. The engraving would appear to date between the death of her first husband in 1823 and her second marriage to Ranald George Macdonald in 1826.
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's, 5 May 1937, lot 67 ((57 to Lamb and Castle)