細節
A GEORGE III SILVER EIGHT-BRANCH EPERGNE
MARK OF LEWIS HERNE AND FRANCIS BUTTY, LONDON, 1762
The openwork frame on four openwork rococo feet, with cast apron of flowers and foliage and rococo motifs, centering a shaped pierced oval basket with rising handles, and supporting four upper branches suspending pierced circular baskets and four lower branches supporting four solid circular dishes, all the baskets engraved with a coat-of-arms within a rococo cartouche, marked on frame, central basket, branches, baskets and dishes, the neck apparently unmarked, the central basket with scratch weight 242"17
28½ in. (72.3 cm.) wide; 242 oz. (7,536 gr.)
來源
Thomas Durrant (d.1790), later 1st Bt. and then by descent to his great grandson
Sir Henry Josias Durrant, 4th Bt. (1838-1875) and then by descent to his third daughter
Adela Constance Alexandrina (d.1962) who married James Edward Shaw (d.1911), of Welburn Hall, Kirbymoorside and Scottow Hall, Norfolk, and then by descent, sold Christie's, London, 12 June 2007, lot 65
With Alastair Dickenson, London
