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A LARGE WILLIAM IV SILVER-GILT SALVER
Lot 1105

A LARGE WILLIAM IV SILVER-GILT SALVER

MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1833

Closed21 June 2012

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A LARGE WILLIAM IV SILVER-GILT SALVER
MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1833
Shaped circular, on four scroll and shell feet, with beaded, shell and gadroon border, the field chased with shellwork, scrolls, diaper and scalework, centering an engraved coat-of-arms within a scrollwork cartouche, marked on reverse, with scratch weight No. 1 264 oz. also stamped GARRARDS Panton Street LONDON
29 in. (74.4 cm.) diameter; 264 oz. (8.255 gr.)

The Audrey Love Collection, sold Christie's, New York, 19 October 2004, lot 233

Specialist note

The arms are those of Benyon De Beauvoir quartering others, as borne by Richard Benyon De Beauvoir (1770-1854), of Englefield House, Berkshire, who assumed the surname of Powlett-Wright in 1814 and De Beauvoir in 1822. In 1797 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Francis Sykes, baronet, of Basildon Park, Berkshire.