A GEORGE III SILVER VENISON-DISH

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A GEORGE III SILVER VENISON-DISH
LONDON, 1803, MAKER'S MARK WS
Oval and with a gadrooned rim, the conforming plain base with two part-turned wood handles and bun feet, each piece engraved twice with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath dish and on base
28 in. (71 cm.) wide
gross weight 274 oz. (8,511 gr.)
The arms are those of Trollope quartering others impaling Thorold, for Sir John Trollope 6th Bt. (1766-1820) and his wife Anne (d.1855), daughter of Henry Thorold of Cuxwold, co. Lincoln, whom he married in 1798. Their son Sir John Trollope, 7th Bt. (1800-1874) was created 1st Baron Kesteven of Casewick in 1868.