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CIRCA 1790
细节
A SET OF FOUR OLD SHEFFIELD PLATED BUTTER SHELLS
CIRCA 1790
Each formed as a scallop shell, on three scroll feet, the flange engraved with the Howe crest within motto of the Order of the Bath
6in. (15.2cm.) long
The crest is that of Howe, for Sir William Howe, K.B., later 7th Bt. and 5th Viscount Howe (1729-1814). He was one of the principal officers employed in America during the War of Independence. He married Frances (d.1817), fourth daughter of the Rt. Hon. Thomas Conolly of Castletown, co. Kildare, sister of Anne Byng (d.1806), wife of George Byng (1735-1789). (4)
CIRCA 1790
Each formed as a scallop shell, on three scroll feet, the flange engraved with the Howe crest within motto of the Order of the Bath
6in. (15.2cm.) long
The crest is that of Howe, for Sir William Howe, K.B., later 7th Bt. and 5th Viscount Howe (1729-1814). He was one of the principal officers employed in America during the War of Independence. He married Frances (d.1817), fourth daughter of the Rt. Hon. Thomas Conolly of Castletown, co. Kildare, sister of Anne Byng (d.1806), wife of George Byng (1735-1789). (4)
来源
Presumably commissioned by Sir William Howe, K.B., later 7th Bt. and 5th Viscount Howe (1729-1814) and then presumably by descent to George Byng, M.P. (d.1847) and then by descent through his wife Frances Connolly, sister of Anne Byng (d.1816) and by descent.
出版
Manuscript Inventory of Pictures and Plate, created Heirloom under the will of the late George Stevens Byng, Earl of Strafford, December 1887. J.E. Boodle, Surveyor, 89 Chancery Lane, London WC1: The Plate in the Custody of Messrs Garrard & Co, 25 Haymarket, SW1, part of 'Four Escallop Shells'.
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