A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER WAITERS

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£ 1 500
Auction dateClassic
25.05.2023 10:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 961004
Lot 62 | A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER WAITERS
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER WAITERS

MARK OF JOHN CARTER II, LONDON, 1768

Each shaped circular on three pad feet and with raised moulded border, later engraved with a coat-of-arms within a rococo cartouche, marked underneath

7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) diameter

19 oz. 2 dwt. (595 gr.)

The arms are those of Howard quartering Brotherton, Warren and Mowbray impaling Maxwell of Nithsdale, quartering Maxwell of Terregles quartering Herries, quartering Constable and Haggerston, presumably for Philip John Canning Howard (d.1934) of Corby Castle and his wife Alice Clare (d.1941), daughter of Peter Constable Constable-Maxwell, whom he married in 1875.





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