A GEORGE I SILVER BEER JUG MARK OF JOSEPH CLARE, LONDON, 1715

Pear shaped on spreading foot, with central moulded rim, the hinged cover with baluster finial and an openwork scrolling thumbpiece, engraved with a coat-of-arms and an inscription, marked below the rim and in cover
111⁄4 in. (28.5 cm.) high
40 oz. 6 dwt. (1,255 gr.)
The arms are those of the City of Lichfield.
The inscription reads:

THIS FLAGGON WAS THE GIFT OF CHARLES SKRYMSHER BOOTHBY Esq. / AND OF ANNE HIS WIFE TO THE PARISH / WEIGHING 40 OUNCES 10 DWT.

Provenance
Charles Skrymsher Boothby (1706-1774) and his wife Anne Buswell (1720-1785), given to the parish church of St. Philip and St. James, Ratby, Leicestershire in 1781
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 8 November 2005, lot 64.