A QUEEN ANNE SILVER MONTEITH MARK OF FRANCIS GARTHORNE, LONDON,...

Circular and with vertically fluted bombe sides, on moulded pedestal foot, with lion's mask drop ring handles, the body with two oval cartouche, one side engraved with a crest, the other with a coat-of-arms, each in baroque cartouche, the detachable rim engraved with a crest, fully marked on body and rim, the handles part marked, engraved beneath the base with cancelled scratchweight 98:18, and number No.1 and further scratchweight 98:15
121⁄8 in. (31 cm.) diameter
95 oz. 3 dwt. (2,960 gr.)
The arms and crest are those of Banks for Joseph Banks (1665-1727), of Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire, M.P. for Grimsby.

Provenance
Joseph Banks (1665-1727), of Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire, M.P. for Grimsby, by descent to his son,
Joseph Banks (1695-1741), of Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire, M.P. for Peterborough, by descent to his son,
William Banks (1719-1761), of Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire, M.P. for Gramound, by decent to his son,
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Bt., G.C.B., F.R.S (1743-1820), celebrated botanist, by descent to his wife's nephew,
Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Bt. (1781-1849), by descent to his eldest son by his second wife,
Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne of Brabourne (1829-1893).
The Executors of the Rt. Hon. Lord Brabourne; Christie's, London, 8 June 1893, lot 145 (£292 to Garrard).
A Gentleman [E. H. Cuthbertson (D. L. Isaacs); Christie's, London, 16 April 1913, lot 68 (£430 to D. Davis).
Anonymous sale [Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company]; Christie's, London, 5 March 1919, lot 105 (£574 to Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company).
Anonymous sale [Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company]; Christie's, London, 15 July 1925, lot 122 (£382 to Tessiers).
Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868-1940), newspaper proprietor and collector,
The Important Collection of Old English Silver Plate of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries, formed by the late Rt. Hon. Viscount Rothermere; Christie's, London, 3 December 1941, lot 110 (£360 to Tessiers).
A Private Collection of English and Scottish Silver; Sotheby's, New York, 23 April 1993, lot 306.