A PAIR OF GEORGE I SILVER SAUCEBOATS

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ID 992581
Lot 169 | A PAIR OF GEORGE I SILVER SAUCEBOATS
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£ 40 000 – 60 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE I SILVER SAUCEBOATS

MARK OF PETER ARCHAMBO, LONDON, 1728

Each shaped oblong and double-lipped, on reeded foot and with moulded central rib and shaped reeded borders, with two double scroll handles with foliate terminals, each engraved with a coat-of-arms within strapwork and shell mantling, each marked underneath

8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) long

45 oz. (1,412 gr.)

The arms are those of Handasyde impaling Thornicroft, for Roger Peter Handasyde (b.c.1684-1763) M.P. of Gaines, co. Huntingdon and his wife Elisabeth (1689-1773), daughter of Sir John Thornicroft 1st Bt. (d.1725) of Milcombe, co. Oxford, whom he married on 2 February 1709.





Provenance

General Roger Handasyde (c.1684-1763).

Oliver May; Christie's, London, 27 June 1973, lot 33.

A European Collector; Christie's, London, 5 July 2005, lot 32.



Literature

J. Herbert ed., Christie's Review of the Season, London, 1973, p. 231.



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