A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER-GILT WAITERS

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29.11.2023 10:30UTC +01:00
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ID 1071182
Lot 115 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER-GILT WAITERS
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER-GILT WAITERS

MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME, LONDON, 1729

Each shaped square on four bracket feet and with gadrooned borders, engraved with a band of Régence strapwork and cartouches with shells or putto masks, engraved with a coat-of-arms beneath a viscount's coronet, marked underneath and further engraved with scratchweights 25=17 and 26=8

9 7⁄8 in. (26.8 cm.) wide

51 oz. 13 dwt. (1,606 gr.)

The arms are those of Blundell quartering Chetwynd, for Sir Montague Blundell, 4th Bt. (1689-1756), and his wife Mary, daughter of John Chetwynd of Grendon, co. Warwick, whom he married in 1709.





Provenance

Sir Montague Blundell, 4th Bt. (1689-1756), then by descent to his niece,

Mary Hill, Marchioness of Downshire and Baroness Sandys in her own right (1764-1836), who married Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (1757-1801), then by descent to their second son,

Arthur Moses William Hill, 2nd Baron Sandys of 2nd creation (1792-1860), then by descent.
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