Furniture, Works of Art and Clocks - 03 Jul 2025
A CARVED MARBLE ARMORIAL CARTOUCHE
A CARVED MARBLE ARMORIAL CARTOUCHE
LATE 18TH CENTURY
the quartered coat of arms relief carved with three lions rampant to the paternal quarters possibly for Engles, FitzJohn, Herbert, Paunceford, Prowse or Warwick, and two lions rampant and a dragon, granted to George Pembroke of St Albans in 1771, in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, and an escutcheon of pretence, possibly for Moyer of Pitsea Hall, with a helm surmount and scrolling foliage
54.2 x 50cm
Catalogue Note
We are grateful to William Hunt, TD BA FCA, of the College of Arms for his help in identifying the Arms.
Further information on the crest:
The crest on offer appears in an early 19th century watercolour as part of the tomb of Rebecca Pauncefort (nee Moyer) (d.1719), in the chapel of Highgate Grammar School. Rebecca was the daughter of Sir Samuel Moyer, 1st Bt., of St. Stephen’s Walbrook, London and Pitsea Hall, Essex. She married Edward Pauncefort M.P. in 1701. The tomb was later moved to the tower room at St Michael’s Church, Highgate, possibly in the 1830’s. By 1936, having been deemed unsafe, the tomb was reduced to just the inscription panels with some elements being reused elsewhere in the church, although no records give details of what happened to the crest.
References
For the watercolour:
For the details of St Michael’s Church: