A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER SAUCEBOATS MARK OF WILLIAM...
Each on shaped lozenge base with gadrooned border, the fluted helmet shaped bodies each with leaf-capped scrolling handle, engraved with a coat-of-arms on one side and a crest on the other, marked beneath the spout, further engraved underneath with scratch weight 74:19
81⁄2 in. (21.5 cm.)
36 oz. 19 dwt. (1,150 gr.)
The arms are those of Allen impaling Holder, almost certainly for Ralph Allen (1693-1764) of Prior Park, Bath and his second wife Elizabeth Holder (d.1766), whom he married at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in 1736.
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Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 28 June 1933, lot 111 (£35).
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Each on shaped lozenge base with gadrooned border, the fluted helmet shaped bodies each with leaf-capped scrolling handle, engraved with a coat-of-arms on one side and a crest on the other, marked beneath the spout, further engraved underneath with scratch weight 74:19
81⁄2 in. (21.5 cm.)
36 oz. 19 dwt. (1,150 gr.)
The arms are those of Allen impaling Holder, almost certainly for Ralph Allen (1693-1764) of Prior Park, Bath and his second wife Elizabeth Holder (d.1766), whom he married at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in 1736.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 28 June 1933, lot 111 (£35).