Description
A George II silver waiter with a cast border,
by Samuel Courtauld I, London 1752,
circular form, with a heavy cast and pierced foliate scroll border, the centre engraved with an armorial, on three vine leaf bracket feet, diameter 17.8cm, approx. weight 14oz.
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The arms are those of an Earl of Durham. The engraving dates from March 23 1833 on which date John George Lambton, sometime M.P for Durham, Lord Privy Seal and Ambassador at St. Petersburg, was created Earl of Durham.