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MARK OF REBECCA EMES AND EDWARD BARNARD, LONDON, 1821
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A GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT SALVER
MARK OF REBECCA EMES AND EDWARD BARNARD, LONDON, 1821
Shaped circular, the border cast and chased with shells, rocaille, and foliage scrolls, further chased with a band of fruiting foliage scrolls on a matted ground, on four shell and flower cast scroll feet, later engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath
22 ¾ in. (58 cm.) diameter
182 oz. 8 dwt. (5,674 gr.)
The later arms are those of Wilmot quartering Horton impaling Boyce for George Lewis Wilmot-Horton, later 5th Bt. (1825-1887) and his wife Frances Augusta, daughter of Henry-Pitches Boyce, whom he married in 1849.
MARK OF REBECCA EMES AND EDWARD BARNARD, LONDON, 1821
Shaped circular, the border cast and chased with shells, rocaille, and foliage scrolls, further chased with a band of fruiting foliage scrolls on a matted ground, on four shell and flower cast scroll feet, later engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath
22 ¾ in. (58 cm.) diameter
182 oz. 8 dwt. (5,674 gr.)
The later arms are those of Wilmot quartering Horton impaling Boyce for George Lewis Wilmot-Horton, later 5th Bt. (1825-1887) and his wife Frances Augusta, daughter of Henry-Pitches Boyce, whom he married in 1849.
Provenance
Sir George Lewis Wilmot-Horton 5th Bt. (1825-1887).
Property from the Collection of J. Paul Getty (1892-1976), formerly in use at Sutton Place; Sotheby's, New York, 19 April 1991, lot 194.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Australia, 27 May 2008, lot 359.
Acquired from Honourable Silver Objects, Antwerp, 9 December 2008.
Property from the Collection of J. Paul Getty (1892-1976), formerly in use at Sutton Place; Sotheby's, New York, 19 April 1991, lot 194.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Australia, 27 May 2008, lot 359.
Acquired from Honourable Silver Objects, Antwerp, 9 December 2008.
Literature
A. Sassoon and G. Wilson, Decorative Arts. A Handbook of the Collections of the J Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1986, p. 134, no. 293.
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