A GEORGE I SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER
A GEORGE I SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER

MARK OF GABRIEL SLEATH, LONDON, 1720, BRITANNIA STANDARD

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A GEORGE I SILVER-GILT CUP AND COVER
MARK OF GABRIEL SLEATH, LONDON, 1720, BRITANNIA STANDARD
Inverted bell shaped and on spreading foot, with two applied facetted handles, the detachable domed cover with baluster finial, the cup engraved with a coat-of-arms, the cover engraved with a crest, marked near handle and on cover bezel
12 ¼ in. (31 cm.) high
71 oz. 6 dwt. (2,217 gr.)
The arms are those of Burkin quartering Cock with Coates in pretence, for James Burkin (1701-1734) of North Burlingham, co. Norfolk and his wife Elizabeth (b.1700), daughter of Thomas Coates of Acle, whom he married in 1723. James' widow Elizabeth placed a memorial slab with these arms in the chancel of St. Peter's Church, Burlington, recorded in E. Farrer, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Norwich, 1885, p. 229

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