Details
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SAUCEBOATS
maker's mark of Mary Piers, London, 1758
Shaped-oval and on three shell and scroll feet, each with leaf-capped scroll handle, curved lip and gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms within Rococo cartouche, marked under bases and engraved with scratch weights 14=14 and 14=16½ - 8½in. (22cm.) long
68ozs. (897grs.)
The arms are those of Meynell quartering Littleton impaling Boothby Scrimshire for Hugo Meynell and his wife Anne (2)
maker's mark of Mary Piers, London, 1758
Shaped-oval and on three shell and scroll feet, each with leaf-capped scroll handle, curved lip and gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms within Rococo cartouche, marked under bases and engraved with scratch weights 14=14 and 14=16½ - 8½in. (22cm.) long
68ozs. (897grs.)
The arms are those of Meynell quartering Littleton impaling Boothby Scrimshire for Hugo Meynell and his wife Anne (2)
Provenance
The Trustees of the Will of the late Hugo Meynell, Sold Christie's, 7 March 1990, lot 142