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A FINE GEORGE III SILVER EPERGNE
maker's mark of Thomas Pitts, London, 1773
Oval, the frame on four leaf-capped openwork shell feet and hung between with drapery swags, the fluted stem with beaded borders and with detachable pierced shaped-oval basket, the frame with eight leaf-capped reeded scroll branches, four with similar detachable oval basket and four with shaped-circular detachable sweetmeat dish, the central basket engraved twice with a coat-of-arms within a ribbon-tied husk cartouche, the smaller baskets and dishes each engraved with a crest and motto, fully marked - 16in. (40.5cm.) high
154ozs. (4,816grs.)
The arms are those of Keith quartering Murray impaling Warren (see preceeding lot)
maker's mark of Thomas Pitts, London, 1773
Oval, the frame on four leaf-capped openwork shell feet and hung between with drapery swags, the fluted stem with beaded borders and with detachable pierced shaped-oval basket, the frame with eight leaf-capped reeded scroll branches, four with similar detachable oval basket and four with shaped-circular detachable sweetmeat dish, the central basket engraved twice with a coat-of-arms within a ribbon-tied husk cartouche, the smaller baskets and dishes each engraved with a crest and motto, fully marked - 16in. (40.5cm.) high
154ozs. (4,816grs.)
The arms are those of Keith quartering Murray impaling Warren (see preceeding lot)