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A WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER CUP AND COVER
Lot 363

A WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER CUP AND COVER

MARK OF ANTHONY NELME, LONDON, 1694

Closed16 September 2015

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A WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER CUP AND COVER
MARK OF ANTHONY NELME, LONDON, 1694
On spreading foot, with part fluted body and scroll handles with ribbed rat-tails, corded girdle to upper body,the body and cover engraved with a crest of three wheat sheaves, the cover with fluted ball finial, inscribed to base The gift of Willm. Wellby to William
Gregory
10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) wide over handles
36 oz. 3 dwt. (1124 gm.)
The inscription is for William Welby (d.1704), Lincolnshire and William Gregory (b.1694), the son of George Gregory (d.1746) M.P. for Nottingham and Susanna, daughter and heir of William Williams of Rempton.

Presumably given as a christening gift to William Gregory (b.1694) bequeathed to his brother George Gregory of Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire (d.1758) and then by descent to,
his grandson Gregory de Ligne Gregory (1786-1854) of Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire, by bequest to,
Sir Glynne Earle Welby-Gregory 3rd Bt. (1806-1875) and then by descent.