A George II silver swing-handled basket

A George II silver swing-handled basket, by William Cripps, London 1746, oval form, pierced decoration, and with masks, bunches of grapes and sheaves of corn, the scroll swing-handle with shells and bunches of grapes, the centre engraved with a later armorial within foliate scroll and shell decoration, on four heavy scroll feet, the reverse with a scratch weight '65=1', length 38cm, approx. weight 65oz. ** provenance: purchased Sotheby's, London, Fine silver,10th July 1990, lot 372. the arms are those of Woodhouse impaling Hoskyns.