A GEORGE III SILVER EWER

A GEORGE III SILVER EWER
MARK OF WAKELIN & GARRARD, LONDON, 1797
Of slender ovoid form with fluted waisted neck and plain loop handle, the foot with gadroon rim, the handle terminating in leaf junctions and with a narrow reeded girdle, the lower body plain and engraved with two oval reserves, one flanked by an ensign and an anchor and surmounted by a baron's coronet over the initial M, inscribed Bequest of the Hon.ble John Forbes Admiral of the Fleet & Gen.l. of Marines, the other reserve inscribed Bequeathed to the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley Pole by Mrs. Caillaud, 1812
13 in. (33.3 cm.) high
21.1 oz. (666 gm.)

Purchased with a bequest from Admiral the Hon. John Forbes (1714-96) to Mrs. Caillaud (d. 1812), by whom bequeathed to the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley-Pole, later Lady Maryborough and Countess of Mornington (1760-1851), and by descent to her daughter Lady Raglan.

Specialist note

Mrs Caillaud was presumably a relation of the distinguished East India Company General John Caillaud (1726-1812), a key figure in the early battles with the French in the 1750s. His wife Mary Pechell died in 1808 so the original owner is unlikely to have been her.