Live Auction 2645A Taste for Luxury: Two Great Houses from America's Gilded Age
A LARGE VICTORIAN SILVER SALVER
Lot 1103

A LARGE VICTORIAN SILVER SALVER

MARK OF MORTIMER & HUNT, LONDON, 1839

Closed21 June 2012

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A LARGE VICTORIAN SILVER SALVER
MARK OF MORTIMER & HUNT, LONDON, 1839
Shaped circular, on four scroll feet, with shell and scroll border, the field engraved with an Earl's arms, marked on reverse, also stamped 'MORTIMER & HUNT III'
28¼ in. (70.6 cm.) diameter; 225 oz. 10 dwt. (7,027 gr.)

Christie's, New York, 23 May 2007, lot 114

Specialist note

The arms of those of George Charles, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800-1888), who married, in 1829, Anne, daughter of the 6th Earl of Cardigan. He was the commander of the Cavalry division during the Crimean War. He is noted for supporting the admission of Jews to Parliament, thus
Lionel Nathan Rothschild was sworn into the House of Commons in 1855.