A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III SILVER SAUCEBOATS

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Lot 119 | A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III SILVER SAUCEBOATS
A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III SILVER SAUCEBOATS

MARK OF DANIEL SMITH AND ROBERT SHARP, LONDON, 1770

Each bombé on three shell feet with shaped gadrooned rim and leaf-capped scroll handle, engraved with a coat-of-arms below earl's coronet, marked underneath

8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) long

61 oz. 3 dwt. (1,903 gr.)

The arms are those of Bathurst quartering others impaling Scawen, for Henry, 2nd Baron Bathurst (1714- 1794) and his second wife Tryphenia (d. 1807), daughter of Thomas Scawen, whom he married in 1759.

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