A GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT SALVER
Lot 632

A GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT SALVER

MARK OF REBECCA EMES AND EDWARD BARNARD, LONDON, 1821

Closed7 December 2018

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GBP 12,500

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A GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT SALVER
MARK OF REBECCA EMES AND EDWARD BARNARD, LONDON, 1821
Shaped circular, the border cast and chased with shells, rocaille, and foliage scrolls, further chased with a band of fruiting foliage scrolls on a matted ground, on four shell and flower cast scroll feet, later engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath
22 ¾ in. (58 cm.) diameter
182 oz. 8 dwt. (5,674 gr.)
The later arms are those of Wilmot quartering Horton impaling Boyce for George Lewis Wilmot-Horton, later 5th Bt. (1825-1887) and his wife Frances Augusta, daughter of Henry-Pitches Boyce, whom he married in 1849.

Sir George Lewis Wilmot-Horton 5th Bt. (1825-1887).
Property from the Collection of J. Paul Getty (1892-1976), formerly in use at Sutton Place; Sotheby's, New York, 19 April 1991, lot 194.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Australia, 27 May 2008, lot 359.
Acquired from Honourable Silver Objects, Antwerp, 9 December 2008.