Silver & Collectors' Items - Day 1 and Day 2 - 22nd January 2013
Lot 1169
A George III silver sugar bowl and cover
Estimate £700 - £900 | Hammer £780
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Description
A George III silver sugar bowl and cover,
probably by John Swift, London 1770,
circular baluster form, on a raised circular foot, the pull-off cover with a gadroon border, the front engraved with an armorial and 'D. D. Jos. Taylor Armi:', height 11.7cm, approx. weight 8.9oz.
Engraved with a cartouche of arms recorded for Blake and for Wyth, above an abbreviated Latin inscription recording the bowl as a gift of Joseph Tayloer, Armiger.