Good Victorian Silverplate Centerpiece

Good Victorian Silverplate Centerpiece

second quarter 19th century, with a central columnar standard surrounded by three neoclassical figures in a musical Bacchanalian procession, the standard surmounted by a lobed and fluted bowl with floriform calyx, the whole raised above a waisted circular plinth with three robust acanthus scroll feet, engraved on each third of the plinth with the arms of Buck quartering Orchard, Dennis and Pawley and impaling Robbins.
h. 26", w. 12-3/4"

Notes: The beautifully engraved arms here are those of Lewis William Buck (1784-1858) of Moreton House, Bideford and Hartland Abbey, Devon and his wife Ann Robbins (1791-1879), who were married in 1808. Buck served as M.P. for Exeter (1826-1932) and North Devon (1839-1857). An engraved escutcheon with the identical arms surmount Buck's mural monument in St. Helen's Church, Abbotsham, Devon.