A LARGE GEORGE III SILVER SALVER

A LARGE GEORGE III SILVER SALVER
MARK OF THOMAS PITTS, LONDON, 1763
In the Chinoiserie taste, shaped circular, on four openwork bracket feet, the openwork border featuring four Chinese figures and pagodas amid flowering foliage, the center later engraved with bright-cut border and coat-of-arms with mantling, marked on reverse and with maker's mark on border, also marked with scratch weights 298 oz. 17 dwt. and 275=11
29 in. (73.7 cm.) diameter; 274 oz. 10 dwt. (8,479 gr.)