A REGENCY SILVER SALVER

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A REGENCY SILVER SALVER
MAKER'S MARK OF WILLIAM PITTS, LONDON, 1814

Shaped circular, on four lion's mask feet headed by scrolls and foliage, the everted rim with scrolls, rocaille and foliage with allegorical masks of the four seasons, the field with scrolls, rocaille, foliage and diaperwork, the center engraved with a baron's armorials, the reverse engraved MAE C. PLANT 1916, marked on reverse and rim
27in. (68.6cm.) diameter; 212oz. (6607gr.)

来源

The Art Collection of the Late Mrs. John E. Rovensky [formerly Mrs Morton F. Plant], Parke Bernet, New York, January 24, 25 and 26, 1957, lot 587.

拍品专文

The arms are those of Vanneck impaling those of Blois, as borne by
Joshua, 2nd Baron Huntingfield, of Heveningham Hall, Suffolk, who was born in 1778. He married as his second wife, in 1817, Lucy Anne, 3rd daughter of Sir Charles Blois. He died in 1844.