MARK OF JOHN SCOFIELD, LONDON, 1780

Details

A GEORGE III SILVER LARGE TRAY
MARK OF JOHN SCOFIELD, LONDON, 1780
Oval, on four scroll feet with applied paterae, the pierced gallery with a wavy rim and applied beading, swags and paterae, the border engraved and stippled with acanthus scrolls, cornucopia, flowers and medallions enclosing classical figures, with reeded rosette-clad handles and wood backing, later engraved with a coat-of-arms within a medallion held by a tied ribbon, marked underneath and on border
34 3/4 in. (88 cm.) wide over handle
gross weight 274 oz. 4 dwt. (8,530 gr.)
The arms are Marjoribanks impaling Hogg, for Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks (1820-1894), later created 1st Baron Tweedmouth, and his wife Isabella Hogg (d.1908), daughter of Sir James Hogg Bt, whom he married in 1848.

Provenance

Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks (1820-1894), later created 1st Baron Tweedmouth.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 20 October 1997, lot 238.

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Lot Essay

DUDLEY MAJORIBANKS, 1ST BARON TWEEDMOUTH
His father was a partner in Coutts Bank, however the partnership passed to Dudley's elder brother when the father died at the age of ninety-two. Dudley went into business acquiring the Meux Brewery and becoming a director of the East India Company. He bought the Guisachan Estate, near Inverness in 1856. He sat as a Liberal in the House of Commons from 1853 until 1880, when he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Tweedmouth. He is credited as having bred the first golden retriever when he crossed a wavy-coated retriever with a Tweed water spaniel. He was succeeded by his son Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth, K.T. (1849-1909).

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