A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER WAITERS, MARK OF DENNIS LANGTON, LONDON, 1733

A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER WAITERS
MARK OF DENNIS LANGTON, LONDON, 1733
On three pad feet shaped circular with moulded border, each engraved with coat-of-arms, marked underneath
6 in. (15.2 cm.) wide
15 oz. 14 dwt. (487 gr.)
The arms are those of Pyle impaling Pitts for Nicholas Pyle (1699-1766), of Marsh Court Manor, Stockbridge, Hampshire, and his wife Mary (1692-1784), daughter of Matthew Pitts (1666-1724), of Burcombe, Wiltshire, whom he married in 1723. The arms of Pyle, which are not recorded by Burke, were noted during a herald's visitation of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in 1686, published as part of the Harleian Manuscripts by Sir Henry St. George and G. D. Squibb in 1991.