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A GEORGE IV SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER
MAKER'S MARK OF BENJAMIN SMITH, LONDON, 1824
Circular, on four shell and scroll feet headed by acanthus, with two leaf-clad open reeded handles, the stylized gadrooned rim with anthemion and shell and acanthus at intervals, the fluted dome cover with similar handle issuing from lion's masks and surmounting a calyx of foliage, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms, helm and motto with scrolling foliate mantling, the cover engraved with a crest, together with removable liner, maker's mark Robert Garrard, 1861, fully marked
length over handles 14in. (35.6cm.)
(188oz., 5844gr.)
MAKER'S MARK OF BENJAMIN SMITH, LONDON, 1824
Circular, on four shell and scroll feet headed by acanthus, with two leaf-clad open reeded handles, the stylized gadrooned rim with anthemion and shell and acanthus at intervals, the fluted dome cover with similar handle issuing from lion's masks and surmounting a calyx of foliage, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms, helm and motto with scrolling foliate mantling, the cover engraved with a crest, together with removable liner, maker's mark Robert Garrard, 1861, fully marked
length over handles 14in. (35.6cm.)
(188oz., 5844gr.)