A GEORGE III SILVER TWO-HANDLED TRAY
MARK OF JOHN CROUCH, LONDON, 1808
Oval, the gadrooned shell rim and grapevine border with scrolls and shells, issuing two conforming handles centered by shells, raised on scroll shell feet, the center engraved with three coats-of-arms flanking crests, the reverse with inscription that reads 'The Gift of His Serene Highness The Prince de Condé to J:W: Phipps, Esq.'; marked on reverse
31 in. (79 cm.) long, over handles
185 oz. 8 dwt. (5,766 gr.)
The central arms are the Royal Arms of France, with a label of difference, for Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (1736–1818).
The flanking crests are those of Waller, for the Royal eye surgeon Joshua Wathen Phipps (1769-1853) of Barywick Lodge, Berkshire, who later took the name and arms of Waller by Sign Manual in 1814 on succeeding to the Waller estates.
A GEORGE III SILVER TWO-HANDLED TRAY
MARK OF JOHN CROUCH, LONDON, 1808
Oval, the gadrooned shell rim and grapevine border with scrolls and shells, issuing two conforming handles centered by shells, raised on scroll shell feet, the center engraved with three coats-of-arms flanking crests, the reverse with inscription that reads 'The Gift of His Serene Highness The Prince de Condé to J:W: Phipps, Esq.'; marked on reverse
31 in. (79 cm.) long, over handles
185 oz. 8 dwt. (5,766 gr.)
The central arms are the Royal Arms of France, with a label of difference, for Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (1736–1818).
The flanking crests are those of Waller, for the Royal eye surgeon Joshua Wathen Phipps (1769-1853) of Barywick Lodge, Berkshire, who later took the name and arms of Waller by Sign Manual in 1814 on succeeding to the Waller estates.
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