Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 2 - 26th January 2022 - 26th January 2022

Lot 954

A large George IV silver salver

Estimate £3,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £5500

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Description

A large George IV silver salver,

by Rebecca Emes and Edward Barnard, London 1820,

circular form, with a cast and pierced foliate scroll border, with grapes and with classical male and female masks and with a cherub and lion head, the centre chased with foliate scroll decoration and with a central armorial within foliate scroll mantling, on four shell and foliate capped scroll bracket feet, diameter 49.8cm, approx. weight 148oz.

The arms are that of Thistlethwayte quartering Home/Hume impaling another.