A GEORGE III SILVER PLATEAU

细节
A GEORGE III SILVER PLATEAU
LONDON, 1767, MAKER'S MARK OF RICHARD RUGG

Of rectangular form on six claw-and-ball feet, the scrolling gadrooned rim with foliate swags at intervals, engraved with a crest and motto Free for a Blast, marked on base--26 1/2in. (67.3 cm.)
(153 oz.)

拍品专文

The crest and motto are those of Pennycuick, Scotland.

A plateau of similar form of 1741, maker's mark of John Barbe, is illustrated in Michael Clayton, The Collector's Dictionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America, 2nd ed., London, 1985, p.444.