A LARGE WILLIAM IV SILVER-GILT SALVER

MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1833

Details

A LARGE WILLIAM IV SILVER-GILT SALVER
MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1833
Shaped circular, on four scroll and shell feet, with beaded, shell and gadroon border, the field chased with shellwork, scrolls, diaper and scalework, centering an engraved coat-of-arms within a scrollwork cartouche, marked on reverse, with scratch weight No. 1 264 oz. also stamped GARRARDS Panton Street LONDON
29 in. (74.4 cm.) diameter; 264 oz. (8.255 gr.)

Provenance

The Audrey Love Collection, sold Christie's, New York, 19 October 2004, lot 233

Literature

A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Exhibition catalogue, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt, 1997, p. 86, no. 21.

Exhibited

New York, Christie's, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt from the Collection of Audrey Love, September 1997

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of Benyon De Beauvoir quartering others, as borne by Richard Benyon De Beauvoir (1770-1854), of Englefield House, Berkshire, who assumed the surname of Powlett-Wright in 1814 and De Beauvoir in 1822. In 1797 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Francis Sykes, baronet, of Basildon Park, Berkshire.

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