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Lot 163
A VICTORIAN SILVER TWO-HANDLED TRAY
MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1858
Fermé1 June 2020
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GBP 6,250
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A VICTORIAN SILVER TWO-HANDLED TRAY
MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1858
Shaped oval with guilloche rosette border and with shell and scroll handles, engraved with a large band of textured panels of foliage and shells framed by scrolls, the centre with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath, further stamped with R & S GARRARD, PANTON ST. LONDON
32 ¼ in. (82 cm.) long
183 oz. 10 dwt. (5,708 gr.)
The arms are those of Dunn quartering Gardner impaling Pigott for John Dunn Gardner (1811-1903), of Chatteris House, Isle of Ely, co. Cambridge and his second wife Ada, daughter of William Pigott of Dullingham House, Newmarket, co. Cambridge, whom he married in 1853.
Dunn Gardner was the natural son of Sarah, Countess of Leicester, later Marchioness of Townshend, daughter of William Dunn Gardner (d.1831) of Chatteris House, and John Margetts, a brewer. Sarah left her husband after a year and entered into a bigamous marriage with Mr. Margetts at Gretna Green in 1807. Together they had several children. John attended school as John Margetts but was later known as John Townshend until 1843 and sometimes styled "Earl of Leicester". He was M.P. for Bodmin from 1841 to 1847. He was at one time one of the largest landowners in Cambridgeshire.
MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1858
Shaped oval with guilloche rosette border and with shell and scroll handles, engraved with a large band of textured panels of foliage and shells framed by scrolls, the centre with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath, further stamped with R & S GARRARD, PANTON ST. LONDON
32 ¼ in. (82 cm.) long
183 oz. 10 dwt. (5,708 gr.)
The arms are those of Dunn quartering Gardner impaling Pigott for John Dunn Gardner (1811-1903), of Chatteris House, Isle of Ely, co. Cambridge and his second wife Ada, daughter of William Pigott of Dullingham House, Newmarket, co. Cambridge, whom he married in 1853.
Dunn Gardner was the natural son of Sarah, Countess of Leicester, later Marchioness of Townshend, daughter of William Dunn Gardner (d.1831) of Chatteris House, and John Margetts, a brewer. Sarah left her husband after a year and entered into a bigamous marriage with Mr. Margetts at Gretna Green in 1807. Together they had several children. John attended school as John Margetts but was later known as John Townshend until 1843 and sometimes styled "Earl of Leicester". He was M.P. for Bodmin from 1841 to 1847. He was at one time one of the largest landowners in Cambridgeshire.
A VICTORIAN SILVER TWO-HANDLED TRAY
MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1858
Shaped oval with guilloche rosette border and with shell and scroll handles, engraved with a large band of textured panels of foliage and shells framed by scrolls, the centre with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath, further stamped with R & S GARRARD, PANTON ST. LONDON
32 ¼ in. (82 cm.) long
183 oz. 10 dwt. (5,708 gr.)
The arms are those of Dunn quartering Gardner impaling Pigott for John Dunn Gardner (1811-1903), of Chatteris House, Isle of Ely, co. Cambridge and his second wife Ada, daughter of William Pigott of Dullingham House, Newmarket, co. Cambridge, whom he married in 1853.
Dunn Gardner was the natural son of Sarah, Countess of Leicester, later Marchioness of Townshend, daughter of William Dunn Gardner (d.1831) of Chatteris House, and John Margetts, a brewer. Sarah left her husband after a year and entered into a bigamous marriage with Mr. Margetts at Gretna Green in 1807. Together they had several children. John attended school as John Margetts but was later known as John Townshend until 1843 and sometimes styled "Earl of Leicester". He was M.P. for Bodmin from 1841 to 1847. He was at one time one of the largest landowners in Cambridgeshire.
MARK OF ROBERT GARRARD, LONDON, 1858
Shaped oval with guilloche rosette border and with shell and scroll handles, engraved with a large band of textured panels of foliage and shells framed by scrolls, the centre with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath, further stamped with R & S GARRARD, PANTON ST. LONDON
32 ¼ in. (82 cm.) long
183 oz. 10 dwt. (5,708 gr.)
The arms are those of Dunn quartering Gardner impaling Pigott for John Dunn Gardner (1811-1903), of Chatteris House, Isle of Ely, co. Cambridge and his second wife Ada, daughter of William Pigott of Dullingham House, Newmarket, co. Cambridge, whom he married in 1853.
Dunn Gardner was the natural son of Sarah, Countess of Leicester, later Marchioness of Townshend, daughter of William Dunn Gardner (d.1831) of Chatteris House, and John Margetts, a brewer. Sarah left her husband after a year and entered into a bigamous marriage with Mr. Margetts at Gretna Green in 1807. Together they had several children. John attended school as John Margetts but was later known as John Townshend until 1843 and sometimes styled "Earl of Leicester". He was M.P. for Bodmin from 1841 to 1847. He was at one time one of the largest landowners in Cambridgeshire.
John Dunn Gardner (1811-1903), of Chatteris House, Isle of Ely, co. Cambridge.