Lot 222
  • 222

A Pair of George III Silver Sauce Boats and George III Tankard, George Methuen, London / maker's mark JS star between possibly for John Scofield (see Grimwade No. 3709), London, 1760/1775

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • sauce boats marked on bases; tankard on base and cover
  • length of sauce boats 9in., height of tankard 8in.
  • 22.9cm, 20.3cm
the sauce boats with gadroon rim and leaf-capped lobed scroll handle, raised on shells and scroll feet; the tankard of girdled baluster form, the front crested, scroll handle with baluster drop and engraved with initails P/R*M

Provenance

James Robinson, New York

Condition

sauce boats with crest removed from side but not thin; tankard with later crest
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