Description
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.
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provenance:
purchased Sotheby's, London, Fine silver,10th July 1990, lot 372.
the arms are those of Woodhouse impaling Hoskyns.
