The Fitzgibbon Marine Centerpiece: A magnificent George III silver centerpiece, James Young, London, 1786

the roughly circular plateau on shell feet, with rockwork edges and two shallow gilt recesses, with four scaly dolphins entwined with scroll supports, supporting an oval tureen with shellwork lower body and multiple-shell drop, centered on each side by a grotesque mask linked by swags of shells and pearls to two triton handles, the garlands matched on the cover below a reclining figure of Neptune with trident, surrounded by four branches chased as coral and supporting spume-edged baskets with gilt interiors, the center of the plateau applied with an oval gilt armorial plaque in a band of pearls

John Fitzgibbon, 1^st Earl of Clare (1748/49-1802)
?John Fitzgibbon, 2^nd Earl of Clare (1792-1851)
?Richard Fitzgibbon, 3^rd Earl of Clare (1793-1864)
Sotheby's, London, 22 October 1970, lot 157

Vanessa Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, 1600-1940, Sotheby's, 1986, fig. 1039, p. 234
Kathryn Jones and Christopher Garibaldi, "Crespin or Sprimont? A Question Revisited," Silver Studies: The Journal of the Silver Society 21 (2006): fig. 10, p. 33