MARK OF PETER ARCHAMBO, LONDON, 1728

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A pair of George I silver sauce-boats
Mark of Peter Archambo, London, 1728
Each double-lipped, shaped oblong on reeded oval foot and with moulded and reeded borders and two double-scroll handles with foliate terminals, the side engraved with a coat-of-arms within strapwork and shell mantling, each marked on base
9in. (22.5cm.) long
45oz. (1,414gr.)
The arms are those of Handasyde impaling Thornicroft, for Roger Peter Handasyde Esq. (c.1684-1763) M.P., of Gaynes, co. Huntingdon and his wife Elisabeth (b.1689), daughter of Sir John Thornicroft 1st Bt. (d.1725) of Milcombe, co. Oxford, whom he married on 2 February 1709. (2)

Provenance

Oliver May; Christie's London, 27 June 1973, lot 33.

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Lot Essay

Roger Handasyde (c.1684-1763) was the son of Major General Thomas Handasyde, late Governor of Jamaica. He was Colonel of a Regiment of Foot in the King's Army and later General, and succeeded to Gaynes Hall on the death of his father in 1729. It is possible that the present sauce-boats were engraved to celebrate his succession.

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