A GEORGE IV IRISH SILVER BASKET
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A GEORGE IV IRISH SILVER BASKET

MARK OF JAMES FRAY, DUBLIN, 1814

Closed16 March 2012

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A GEORGE IV IRISH SILVER BASKET
MARK OF JAMES FRAY, DUBLIN, 1814
Circular on domed fluted foot, the shaped gadrooned rim with alternating anthemion and shell motifs, the bowl part-fluted and engraved with a coat-of-arms below a viscount's coronet, marked near rim
12½ in. (31.7 cm.) diameter
36 oz. 10 dwt. (1,134 gr.)
The arms are those of Wingfield impaling Jocelyn for Richard Wingfield, 5th Viscount Powerscourt (1790-1823) and his wife Lady Frances Theodosia Jocelyn, (d. 1820) eldest daughter of the 2nd Earl of Roden, who he married in 1813.