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Lot 72

A GEORGE III BALUSTER SILVER COFFEE POT

MARK OF JOHN SWIFT, LONDON, 1766

Closed20 January 2010

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A GEORGE III BALUSTER SILVER COFFEE POT
MARK OF JOHN SWIFT, LONDON, 1766
With gadroon borders, the fluted spout issuing from an acanthus leaf, one side engraved with coat-of-arms within rococo cartouche
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high
20 oz. (620 gr.)
The arms are those of Heron impaling Brooke for the marriage of George Heron and Felicia Brooke of Mare, Cheshire, circa 1765.

George Heron of Daresbury Hall, Cheshire, circa 1765.
By descent to General Peter Heron (1770-1849) of Moor Hall, Cheshire, and to his wife's great-niece, Cecilia Widdrington who married Shalcross Fitzherbert Widdrington in 1864.