Silver & Collectors' Items - Day 1 and Day 2 - 16th July 2013

Lot 1289

A George III silver salver with a cast border

Estimate £3,000 - £4,000 | Hammer £3000

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Description

A George III silver salver with a cast border,

by John Carter, London 1770,

heptafoil form, the cast border with pierced trellis and foliate decoration, (part marked), the centre engraved with a widow's lozenge armorial, on three pierced scroll bracket feet, diameter 36.2cm, approx. weight 50oz.

The arms are those of MacDonald impaling Montgomerie quartering Eglinton for Lady Margaret MacDonald of Sleat.