A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER SALVERS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER SALVERS
MAKER'S MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1827

In the Rococo style, each shaped circular, on multi-scroll feet, the molded rim with shells, acanthus and scrolls at intervals, the field engraved with scrolls, rocaille and trelliswork with matting, the center engraved with a coat-of-arms within a foliate scroll and rocaille cartouche, the reverse engraved with the inscription IN TOKEN OF THE KIND BEQUEST OF FRANCIS EARL OF KILMOREY TO THE HON BLE PEREGRINE F. CUST., marked on reverses and stamped GARRARDS Panton Street LONDON
15½in. (39.4cm.) diameter
(137oz. 10dwt., 4288gr.) (2)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Cust with an annulet for difference, as borne by the Hon. Peregrine Cust, fifth son of Sir Brownlow Cust, 1st Lord Brownlow, born in 1791. A Lieutenant-General in the Army, he married in 1823 Lady Isabella Montagu-Scott, daughter of the 4th Duke of Buccleuch, who died in 1829. He married as his second wife, in 1833, Sophia, daughter of John, 2nd Viscount Sydney, who died in 1852. As his third wife he married, in 1860, Frances, widow of Augustus, Earl of Albemarle.

Peregrine Cust, elder brother Henry Cockayne, Canon of Windsor, had married Anna, eldest daughter of Francis, 1st Earl of Kilmorey, in 1816. The Earl died in 1832 and the engraving of the arms and inscription would appear to date from this time.