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Lot Essay
The size of this piece makes it very useful whenever we have a large number of people for dinner. It has striking coats of arms in the center. It is so heavy that we usually put glasses and bottles on it on a table for serving. - David Rockefeller. (D. Fennimore et al., p. 407).
The arms on the left are those of Otway with Cave quartering others in pretence for Henry Otway-Cave and his wife Sarah Otway-Cave, 3rd Baroness Braye. The arms on the right are those of Cave quartering others for Sarah Otway-Cave, 3rd Baroness Braye (1768–1862). She married Henry Otway in 1790. Their surname was changed by Royal License to Otway-Cave in 1818. The title Baron Braye, created by writ in 1529, could pass through both the male and female line. It had remained in abeyance for 282 years following the death of the 2nd Baron in 1557, however the abeyance was terminated in favour of Sarah Otway-Cave in 1839.
The arms on the left are those of Otway with Cave quartering others in pretence for Henry Otway-Cave and his wife Sarah Otway-Cave, 3rd Baroness Braye. The arms on the right are those of Cave quartering others for Sarah Otway-Cave, 3rd Baroness Braye (1768–1862). She married Henry Otway in 1790. Their surname was changed by Royal License to Otway-Cave in 1818. The title Baron Braye, created by writ in 1529, could pass through both the male and female line. It had remained in abeyance for 282 years following the death of the 2nd Baron in 1557, however the abeyance was terminated in favour of Sarah Otway-Cave in 1839.
