A GEORGE III SILVER INKSTAND
MARK OF JOSEPH ANGELL, LONDON, 1819
Oblong on four paw feet with scroll and foliage border, with two silver-mounted cut-glass bottles, the central container cover mounted with taperstick with conical extinguisher, engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath, on central container and on each mount and cover
11 in. (27.9 cm.) wide
weighable silver 41 oz. 17 dwt. (1,302 gr.)
The arms are those of Arkwright impaling Beresford, quartering others, for Richard Arkwright (1781-1832) and wife Martha Maria, daughter of the Reverend William Beresford, whom he married in 1803. Richard Arkwright was the grandson of Sir Richard Arkwright, the well known industrialist who invented many machines used in the production of textiles. His father, Richard Junior, purchased, in 1824, Sutton Scarsdale Hall, built a century earlier by Francis Smith of Warwick for Nicholas Leke, 4th Earl of Scarsdale.
A GEORGE III SILVER INKSTAND
MARK OF JOSEPH ANGELL, LONDON, 1819
Oblong on four paw feet with scroll and foliage border, with two silver-mounted cut-glass bottles, the central container cover mounted with taperstick with conical extinguisher, engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath, on central container and on each mount and cover
11 in. (27.9 cm.) wide
weighable silver 41 oz. 17 dwt. (1,302 gr.)
The arms are those of Arkwright impaling Beresford, quartering others, for Richard Arkwright (1781-1832) and wife Martha Maria, daughter of the Reverend William Beresford, whom he married in 1803. Richard Arkwright was the grandson of Sir Richard Arkwright, the well known industrialist who invented many machines used in the production of textiles. His father, Richard Junior, purchased, in 1824, Sutton Scarsdale Hall, built a century earlier by Francis Smith of Warwick for Nicholas Leke, 4th Earl of Scarsdale.
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