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Lot Essay
The arms are those of Bennet impaling Wake for Thomas Bennet Esq. (d. 1754) of Norton Bavant and Pythouse and his wife Ethelred (d. 1766), daughter and later co-heir of His Grace William Wake, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury, whom he married in 1713.
This salver and the following lot desended to John Bennet-Stanford, of Preston Manor, Brighton. Bennet-Standford was a pioneering cinematographer and noted silver spoon collector. A Queen Anne silver milk jug by Thomas Parr, 1713, bearing the same arms as the present lot sold at Christie's, London, December 17, 1997, lot 161.
This salver and the following lot desended to John Bennet-Stanford, of Preston Manor, Brighton. Bennet-Standford was a pioneering cinematographer and noted silver spoon collector. A Queen Anne silver milk jug by Thomas Parr, 1713, bearing the same arms as the present lot sold at Christie's, London, December 17, 1997, lot 161.