A George III silver swing-handled cake basket

A George III silver swing-handled cake basket,

by John Wakelin & Robert Garrard, London 1796,

oval form, the body pierced with scroll and oval decoration, gadroon border, the centre engraved with an armorial with foliate mantling, on a raised oval gadrooned foot, length 35.5cm, approx. weight 36.2oz.

The inescutcheon is that of Clayton / Fletcher on an unidentified shield.