Description
A George III silver swing-handled bread basket,
by Aldridge and Green, London 1778,
oval form, pierced and engraved foliate decoration, beaded border and beaded swing handle, the centre engraved with two armorials, on a raised oval foot, length 35cm, approx. weight 33oz.
The arms are those of Sir George Armytage, 3rd Baronet of Kirklees, Yorkshire, with those of Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Godfrey Wentworth of Woolley Park, Yorkshire.
George Armytage, (1734-1783) was M.P for the City of York. he succeeded to the baronetcy in 1758 and married Anna Wentworth in 1760. She died in 1788 after bearing three sons and four daughters. He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1781.
